cohomological invariant

C58003
concept

A cohomological invariant is a rule that assigns to each object in a given class (such as algebraic varieties, groups, or topological spaces) an element of a cohomology group in a way that is functorial and captures structural or classification information about those objects.

Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
cohomology operation 2
birational invariant (for smooth projective varieties over a field) 1
cohomological construction 1

Instances (8)

Instance Via concept surface
Herbrand quotient
Shafarevich group of a torus
Chern–Simons forms
surface form: Chern–Simons form
secondary characteristic class
Picard group birational invariant (for smooth projective varieties over a field)
Beilinson regulator cohomological construction
Steenrod operations cohomology operation
Bockstein homomorphism cohomology operation
Cheeger–Simons differential characters cohomological refinement