Almost flat bundles and almost flat structuresстатья
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Аннотация:In this paper we discuss some geometric aspects concerning almost flat bundles, notion introduced by Connes, Gromov and Moscovici [2]. Using a natural construction of [1], we present here a simple description of such bundles. For this we modify the notion of almost flat structure on bundles over smooth manifolds and extend this notion to bundles over arbitrary CW-spaces using quasi-connections [3]. Connes, Gromov and Moscovici [2] showed that for any almost flat bundle alpha over the manifold M, the index of the signature operator with values in a is a homotopy equivalence invariant of M. From here it follows that a certain integer multiple n of the bundle a comes from the classifying space B pi(1)(M). The geometric arguments discussed in this paper allow us to show that the bundle a itself, and not necessarily a certain multiple of it, comes from an arbitrarily large compact subspace Y subset of B pi(1)(M) trough the classifying mapping.