Cheeger-Chern-Simons theory and differential string classes

DOI10.1007/s00023-016-0485-6zbMath1342.81396arXiv1404.0716OpenAlexW2963181044MaRDI QIDQ295537

Christian Becker

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0716

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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