Gerbes, simplicial forms and invariants for families of foliated bundles

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1193-5zbMATH Open1079.57023arXivmath/0308076OpenAlexW3105152987MaRDI QIDQ2385986FDOQ2385986

Authors: Johan L. Dupont, Franz W. Kamber 

Publication date: 22 August 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notion of a gerbe with connection is conveniently reformulated in terms of the simplicial deRham complex. In particular the usual Chern-Weil and Chern-Simons theory is well adapted to this framework and rather easily gives rise to `characteristic gerbes' associated to families of bundles and connections. In turn this gives invariants for families of foliated bundles. A special case is the Quillen line bundle associated to families of flat SU(2)-bundles

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308076

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zbMATH Keywords

Deligne cohomologyfamily of principal bundles with connectionsgerbe with connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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