Cheeger-Chern-Simons theory and differential string classes

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0485-6zbMATH Open1342.81396arXiv1404.0716OpenAlexW2963181044MaRDI QIDQ295537FDOQ295537

Authors: Christian Becker 

Publication date: 13 June 2016

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

Abstract: We introduce certain relative differential characters which we call Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters. These combine the well-known Cheeger-Simons characters with Chern-Simons forms. In the same way as the Cheeger-Simons characters generalize Chern-Simons invariants of oriented closed manifolds, the Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters generalize Chern-Simons invariants of oriented manifolds with boundary. Using Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters, we introduce the notion of differential trivializations of universal characteristic classes. Specializing to the class 1/2 $p_{1}in{H}^4(Bmathrm{Spin}_n;mathbbZ)$ this yields a notion of differential String classes. Differential String classes turn out to be stable isomorphism classes of geometric String structures.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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