Flat pairing and generalized Cheeger-Simons characters

DOI10.1007/S40062-015-0124-9MaRDI QIDQ2012171zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio Ferrari Ruffino

Publication date 28 July 2017

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1288

zbMATH Keywords

differential cohomologygeneralized homology theoriesdifferential charactersgeneralized cohomology theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Let h^{*} be a multiplicative cohomology theory, h_{*} its dual homology theory and hat{h}^{*} a differential refinement. We first construct the natural pairing between h_{*} and the flat part of hat{h}^{*}, generalizing the holonomy of a flat Deligne cohomology class. Then, in order to generalize the holonomy of any Deligne cohomology class, we define the generalized Cheeger-Simons characters. The latter are functions from suitably defined differential cycles to the cohomology ring of the point, such that the value on a trivial cycle only depends on the curvature.

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