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This paper considers the Pontryagin characters of graded vector bundles of finite rank, in the cohomology vector spaces of a Lie algebroid over the same base. These Pontryagin characters vanish if the graded vector bundle carries a representation up to homotopy of the Lie algebroid. As a consequence, this gives a strong obstruction to the existence of a representation up to homotopy on a graded vector bundle of finite rank. In particular, if a graded vector bundle $E[0]\oplus F[1]\to M$ carries a $2$-term representation up to homotopy of a Lie algebroid $A\to M$, then all the (classical) $A$-Pontryagin classes of $E$ and $F$ must coincide. This paper generalises as well Bott's vanishing theorem to the setting of Lie algebroid representations (up to homotopy) on arbitrary vector bundles. As an application, the main theorems induce new obstructions to the existence of infinitesimal ideal systems in a given Lie algebroid.

Author
Lean, Madeleine Jotz
Published
2019
Language
EN

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