# nLab Gelfand-Fuks cohomology

cohomology

### Theorems

#### $\infty$-Lie theory

Background

Smooth structure

Higher groupoids

Lie theory

∞-Lie groupoids

∞-Lie algebroids

Formal Lie groupoids

Cohomology

Homotopy

Related topics

Examples

$\infty$-Lie groupoids

$\infty$-Lie groups

$\infty$-Lie algebroids

$\infty$-Lie algebras

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).

• I. M. Gel'fand, D. B. Fuks, The cohomology of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a smooth manifold, J. Funct. Analysis 33, 1969, 194–210, II, J. Funct. Anal. 4 (1970) 110-116; The cohomology of the Lie algebra of formal vector fields, Izv. AN SSR 34 (1970), 110-116
• Shigeyuki Morita, Geometry of characteristic classes, Transl. Math. Monographs 199, AMS 2001

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