nLab Gelfand-Fuks cohomology

Gel’fand-Fuks cohomology is the cohomology of continuous alternating chains on the topological algebra of smooth vector fields on smooth manifold, where the topology on the algebra is given by uniform convergence of all (higher) partial derivative on compacts (sometimes called $C^\infty$-topology on that algebra).

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• Shigeyuki Morita, Geometry of characteristic classes, Transl. Math. Monographs 199, AMS 2001