TITLE: who can tell me how to understand and compute Chern roots
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: As i learn the local index theory , Chern roots appears and i cannot understand what it is and i can't find any references about it .Can anyone tell me something about it and give me some references,also tell me how to compute it ?

REPLY [4 votes]: Chern root algorithm and local index theorems:
http://books.google.com/books?id=sqwa47R6Ds4C&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324