ON DIFFERENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC CLASSES

DOI10.1017/S1446788714000627MaRDI QIDQ5500773zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Man-Ho Ho

Publication date 10 August 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3927

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesChern classdifferential \(K\)-theorydifferential characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: In this paper we give explicit formulas of differential characteristic classes of principal $G$-bundles with connections and prove their expected properties. In particular, we obtain explicit formulas for differential Chern classes, differential Pontryagin classes and differential Euler class. Furthermore, we show that the differential Chern class is the unique natural transformation from (Simons-Sullivan) differential $K$-theory to (Cheeger-Simons) differential characters that is compatible with curvature and characteristic class. We also give the explicit formula for the differential Chern class on Freed-Lott differential $K$-theory. Finally we discuss the odd differential Chern classes.

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