ON SOMES CHARACTERISTIC CLASSES OF FLAT BUNDLES IN COMPLEX GEOMETRY

On a compact Kahler manifold X, any semisimple flat bundle carries a harmonic metric. It can be used to define some characteristic classes of the flat bundle, in the cohomology of X. We show that these cohomology classes come from an infinite-dimensional space, constructed with loop groups, an analogue of the period domains used in Hodge theory.