Differential characters and geometric chains

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-07034-6_1MaRDI QIDQ2922062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Bär, Christian Becker

Publication date 9 October 2014

Published in Differential Characters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6457

zbMATH Keywords

chain field theoriesdifferential characterdifferential cohomologydifferential cohomology cross productfiber integrationfiber productshigher-dimensional holonomyhigher-dimensional transgressioninternal product of differential charctersparallel transportrelative differential charactersring structure on differential cohomologysections of a differential character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Generalized manifolds (57P99) Differential spaces (58A40)

Abstract: We study Cheeger-Simons differential characters and provide geometric descriptions of the ring structure and of the fiber integration map. The uniqueness of differential cohomology (up to unique natural transformation) is proved by deriving an explicit formula for any natural transformation between a differential cohomology theory and the model given by differential characters. Fiber integration for fibers with boundary is treated in the context of relative differential characters. As applications we treat higher-dimensional holonomy, parallel transport, and transgression.

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