Chern-Weil forms and abstract homotopy theory

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01415-0MaRDI QIDQ2849009zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel S. Freed, Michael J. Hopkins

Publication date 16 September 2013

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5959

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil theoryhomotopyde Rham complexuniversal connectionuniversal space of differential forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) (G)-structures (53C10) Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35) Topos-theoretic approach to differentiable manifolds (58A03)

Abstract: We prove that Chern-Weil forms are the only natural differential forms associated to a connection on a principal G-bundle. We use the homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves on smooth manifolds to formulate the theorem and set up the proof. Other arguments come from classical invariant theory. We identify the Weil algebra as the de Rham complex of a specific simplicial sheaf, and similarly give a new interpretation of the Weil model in equivariant de Rham theory. There is an appendix proving a general theorem about set-theoretic transformations of polynomial functors. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Dan Quillen.

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