On Chern classes of almost representations

Marius Dadarlat, Forrest Glebe

For a discrete group $\hat{I}“$, we study vector bundles $E_{\ddot{I}}$ on compact subsets of $B\hat{I}“$ associated to almost representations $\ddot{I}:\hat{I}“\to U(n)$. We compute the first Chern class of $E_Ï…