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Smooth toral actions on principal bundles and characteristic classes

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  • Vector Bundle
  • Normal Bundle
  • Chern Class
  • Principal Bundle
  • Connection Form

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Alamo, N., Gómez, F. (1989). Smooth toral actions on principal bundles and characteristic classes. In: Carreras, F.J., Gil-Medrano, O., Naveira, A.M. (eds) Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086408

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