Loop groups, string classes and equivariant cohomology

DOI10.1017/S1446788711001066MaRDI QIDQ3011601zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Raymond F. Vozzo

Publication date 29 June 2011

Published in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4243

zbMATH Keywords

Caloron correspondenceequivariant cohomologyloop groupsstring class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We give a classifying theory for $LG$-bundles, where $LG$ is the loop group of a compact Lie group $G$, and present a calculation for the string class of the universal $LG$-bundle. We show that this class is in fact an equivariant cohomology class and give an equivariant differential form representing it. We then use the caloron correspondence to define (higher) characteristic classes for $LG$-bundles and to prove for the free loop group an analogue of the result for characteristic classes for based loop groups in Murray-Vozzo (J. Geom. Phys., 60(9), 2010). These classes have a natural interpretation in equivariant cohomology and we give equivariant differential form representatives for the universal case in all odd dimensions.

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