Geometry of higher connections

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2000.035MaRDI QIDQ4488482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pawel Gajer

Publication date 5 July 2000

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9601025

zbMATH Keywords

Deligne cohomologyhigher connectionsholomorphic charactersCheeger-Simons invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Sheaves and cohomology of sections of holomorphic vector bundles, general results (32L10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: It is well known that degree two Deligne cohomology groups can be identified with groups of isomorphism classes of holomorphic line bundles with connections. There is also a geometric description of degree three Deligne cohomology, due to J-L. Brylinski and P. Deligne, in terms of gerbes with connective structures and curvings. This paper gives a geometric interpretation of Deligne cohomology of all degrees, in terms of equivalence classes of higher line bundles with $k$-connections. It is also shown that the classical Abel-Jacobi isomorphism $Pi{c}^0(X)congJ(X)$ generalizes to the isomorphism between groups of equivalence classes of topologically trivial 1-holomorphic higher line bundles with $k$-connections and Griffiths intermediate Jacobians.

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