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Which differential forms commute with the curvature form?

Consider a vector bundle, $E \to M$, with connection, $\nabla$, and curvature $2$-form, $F$ on $M$. For $E$-valued differential forms on $M$, $\Omega(M, E)$, we have an exterior covariant derivative, ...
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Restriction of a line bundle to a two-cycle

I am reading a paper on Chiral Differential Operators http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0604179v3.pdf and it says on page 23 that a line bundle over a manifold C can be characterized completely by its ...
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Integration and Stokes' theorem for vector bundle-valued differential forms?

Is there a version of Stokes' theorem for vector bundle-valued (or just vector-valued) differential forms? Concretely: Let $E \rightarrow M$ be a smooth vector bundle over an $n$-manifold $M$ equipped ...
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