Uniqueness of differential characters and differential K-theory via homological algebra

DOI10.1007/S40062-021-00278-4MaRDI QIDQ2038103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ishan Mata

Publication date 9 July 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02056

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theorydifferential \(K\)-theorydifferential charactersdifferential cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

Abstract: In Proc Math Sci 129, 70(219), Rakesh Pawar considers and solves a certain extension problem. In this note, we observe that the existence and uniqueness of differential characters (defined as objects which fit into a hexagon diagram) follow directly from Rakesh Pawar's results. This provides an alternate proof of a weaker version of the results of J. Simons and D. Sullivan, Journal of Topology, 2008, vol 1:45-56. Further this approach directly shows that the hexagon diagram uniquely determines the differential K-theory groups upto an isomorphism.

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