Differential Borel equivariant cohomology via connections

zbMATH Open1364.53025arXiv1602.06921MaRDI QIDQ526167FDOQ526167

Corbett Redden

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a compact Lie group acting on a smooth manifold, we define the differential cohomology of a certain quotient stack involving principal bundles with connection. This produces differential equivariant cohomology groups that map to the Cartan-Weil equivariant forms and to Borel's equivariant integral cohomology. We show the Chern-Weil homomorphism for equivariant vector bundles with connection naturally factors through differential equivariant cohomology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06921

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zbMATH Keywords

differential cohomologyequivariant cohomologyChern-Weil

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

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