nLab James Simons

James Simons (1938-2024)

• Wikipedia entry

Selected writings

On Chern-Weil theory and introducing Chern-Simons forms:

• Shiing-Shen Chern, James Simons, Section 2 of: Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants, Annals of Mathematics Second Series, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Jan., 1974), pp. 48-69 (jstor:1971013)

On Cheeger-Simons differential characters and secondary invariants:

• Jeff Cheeger, James Simons, Differential characters and geometric invariants, pages 50–80 in: Geometry and Topology, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1167. Springer (1985) (pdf, doi:10.1007/BFb0075212)

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