Higher-dimensional parallel transports

DOI10.4310/MRL.2001.V8.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ5945783zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kiyonori Gomi, Yuji Terashima

Publication date 28 March 2003

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2001.V8.N1.A4

zbMATH Keywords

Deligne cocyclesline bundlesparallel transporttransgression map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology (55N30)

Review text

Let \(E\) be a smooth vector bundle over a manifold \(X\). Given a smooth path \(\gamma\) in \(X\), a connection on \(E\) induces the parallel transport along \(\gamma\), which is an isomorphism between the fibers over the end points of the path. This applies, in particular, to line bundles equipped with connections. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThinking of a path as a map from a 1-dimensional manifold with boundary to \(X\), and of a line bundle with a connection as a 1-dimensional smooth Deligne cocycle on \(X\), the authors generalize the concept of parallel transport to the case of maps from a higher-dimensional manifold with boundary to \(X\), with respect to a higher-dimensional Deligne cocycle. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINETo this end, the authors define the transgression map for smooth Deligne cochains by means of which they construct line bundles over an appropriate space of maps (from closed manifolds of dimension \(m\) to \(XC\)), for a smooth Deligne cocycle of degree \(m+1\). The higher-dimensional parallel transport along a smooth path \(f : N \rightarrow X\), where \(N\) is a compact manifold with boundary is provided, roughly speaking, by a certain non-vanishing global section of a line bundle as before, over \(C^{\infty}(N,X)\).

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