The Chern character in the simplicial de Rham complex

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Authors Naoya Suzuki

Publication date 7 April 2016

Published in Nihonkai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5949, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.nihmj/1459343066

zbMATH Keywords

Chern charactersimplicial de Rham complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40) Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12)

Abstract: On the basis of Dupont's work, we exhibit a cocycle in the simplicial de Rham complex which represents the Chern character. We also prove the related conjecture due to Brylinski. This gives a way to construct a cocycle in a local truncated complex.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a Lie group. It is well known that the characteristic classes of principal \(G\)-bundles are in one-one correspondence with elements in \(H^*(BG)\), where \(BG\) is the classifying space of \(G\). Since it is well known that \(BG\) is not a manifold, \(H^*(BG)\) cannot be described using de Rham theory. Instead, we can consider the simplicial manifold \(NG(\ast)\) and consider a double complex \(\Omega^{p, q}(NG)=\Omega^q(NG(p))\) introduced by Dupont on it whose cohomology is isomorphic to \(H^*(BG)\). The article under review gives an explicit cocycle representative of the universal Chern character for \(G=\mathrm{GL}(n; \mathbb{C})\) in \(\Omega^{*, *}(NG)\).

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