Inner structure of Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem and the Morse theory

We discuss an object from algebraic topology, Hopf invariant, and reinterpret it in terms of the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory. The main purpose in this paper is to present a new theoretical framework which can directly give the relationship between Hopf invariant and the linking numbers of the higher dimensional submanifolds of Euclidean space $R^{2n-1}$. For the sake of this purpose we introduce a topological tensor current which can naturally deduce the $(n-1...

This expository paper contains a detailed introduction to some important works concerning the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem. The study of this theorem has a long history dating back to Gauss's Theorema Egregium (Latin: Remarkable Theorem) and culminated in Chern's groundbreaking work [14] in 1944, which is a deep and wonderful application of Elie Cartan's formalism. The idea and tools in [14] have a great generalization and continue to produce important results till today. In th...

The index theorem of Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic of manifold with boundary is given by making use of the general decomposition theory of spin connection. We shows the sum of the total index of a vector field $\phi $ and half the total of the projective vector field of $\phi $ on the boundary equals the Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic of the manifold. Detailed discussion on the topological structure of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem on manifold with boundary is given. The ...

Using the idea of the degree of a smooth mapping between two manifolds of the same dimension we present here the topological (homotopical) classification of the mappings between spheres of the same dimension, vector fields, monopole and instanton solutions. Starting with a review of the elements of Riemannian geometry we also present an original elementary proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and the Poincar\'{e}-Hopf theorem.

In this paper, we prove a local index theorem for the DeRham Hodge-laplacian which is defined by the connection compatible with metric. This connection need not be the Levi-Civita connection. When the connection is Levi-Civita connection, this is the classical local Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem.

The goal of this work is to generalize the Gauss-Bonnet and Poincar\'{e}-Hopf Theorems to the case of orbifolds with boundary. We present two such generalizations, the first in the spirit of Satake. In this case, the local data (i.e. integral of the curvature in the case of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem and the index of the vector field in the case of the Poincar\'{e}-Hopf Theorem) is related to Satake's orbifold Euler characteristic, a rational number which depends on the orbifol...

In this paper we first prove that every differential character can be represented by differential form with singularities. Then we lift the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem for vector bundles to differential characters.

For a compact differentiable surface with boundary embedded in $\Bbb R^3$, we give simple proofs of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, Poincar\'{e}-Hopf theorem, and several other integral formulas. We complete all of the proofs without using fundamental or differential forms.

On an oriented Riemannian manifold, the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern formula asserts that the Pfaffian of the metric represents, in de Rham cohomology, the Euler class of the tangent bundle. Hence, if the underlying manifold is compact, the integral of the Pfaffian is a topological invariant; namely, the Euler characteristic of the manifold. In this paper we refine a result originally due to Gilkey that characterizes this formula as the only (non-trivial) integral of a differential i...

We present a new proof for the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem. We represent the Euler class integral as the partition function for zero-dimensional field theory with on-shell supersymmetry. We rewrite the supersymmetric partition function as a BV integral and deform the Lagrangian submanifold. The new Lagrangian submanifold localizes the BV integral to the critical points of the Morse function.