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A note on characteristic classes

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This paper studies the relationship between the sections and the Chern or Pontrjagin classes of a vector bundle by the theory of connection. Our results are natural generalizations of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China

    Jianwei Zhou

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Zhou, J. A note on characteristic classes. Czech Math J 56, 721–732 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10587-006-0051-3

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