Curvature on determinant bundles and first Chern forms

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(01)00079-1zbMATH Open1028.58030arXivmath/0009172MaRDI QIDQ1867211FDOQ1867211

Authors: Sylvie Paycha, Steven Rosenberg 

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Quillen-Bismut-Freed construction associates a determinant line bundle with connection to an infinite dimensional super vector bundle with a family of Dirac-type operators. We define the regularized first Chern form of the infinite dimensional bundle, and relate it to the curvature of the Bismut-Freed connection on the determinant bundle. In finite dimensions, these forms agree (up to sign), but in infinite dimensions there is a correction term, which we express in terms of Wodzicki residues. We illustrate these results with a string theory computation. There is a natural super vector bundle over the manifold of smooth almost complex structures on a Riemannian surface. The Bismut-Freed superconnection is identified with classical Teichmuller theory connections, and its curvature and regularized first Chern form are computed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009172

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zbMATH Keywords

Wodzicki residueregularized tracesBismut-Freed connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

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