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IJMMS 2003:47, 3007–3014 PII. S0161171203210164 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CHERN-SIMONS FORMS OF PSEUDO-RIEMANNIAN HOMOGENEITY ON THE OSCILLATOR GROUP P. M. GADEA and J. A. OUBIÑA Received 17 October 2002 We consider forms of Chern-Simons type associated to homogeneous pseudo- Riemannian structures. The corresponding secondary classes are a measure of the lack of a homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian space to be locally symmetric. In the present paper, we compute these forms for the oscillator group and the cor- responding secondary classes of the compact quotients of this group. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 57R20, 53C30, 53C50. 1. Introduction. The Chern-Simons theory supplies both in physics and dif- ferential geometry interesting characteristic forms and classes; for instance, it furnishes a mathematical formulation for some anomalies. The principle of the construction is a technique of comparison of connections. It is pos- sible to give new secondary characteristic forms of Chern-Simons type for a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M,g) endowed with a homogeneous pseudo- Riemannian structure S , by using the Levi-Civita connection ∇ and the con- nection ∇ = ∇ − S . The tensor field S satisfies Ambrose-Singer’s equations (see (2.1)), and if the pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M,g) is reductive homo- geneous, then ∇ is the canonical connection associated to a reductive decom- position. This construction, explained in Section 2, furnishes odd-dimensional differ- ential forms of degree greater than 1, which are null if S = 0. We recall that if S = 0, then (M,g) is pseudo-Riemannian locally symmetric. Under certain conditions, these forms are closed and define secondary classes.