Noncommutative Chern-Weil theory and the combinatorics of wheeling

DOI10.1215/00127094-2011-005zbMATH Open1277.57013arXivmath/0612653OpenAlexW2076304401MaRDI QIDQ533846FDOQ533846

Authors: Andrew Kricker 

Publication date: 10 May 2011

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work applies the ideas of Alekseev and Meinrenken's Non-commutative Chern-Weil Theory to describe a completely combinatorial and constructive proof of the Wheeling Theorem. In this theory, the crux of the proof is, essentially, the familiar demonstration that a characteristic class does not depend on the choice of connection made to construct it. To a large extent this work may be viewed as an exposition of the details of some of Alekseev and Meinrenken's theory written for Kontsevich integral specialists. Our goal was a presentation with full combinatorial detail in the setting of Jacobi diagrams - to achieve this goal certain key algebraic steps required replacement with substantially different combinatorial arguments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612653

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Universal enveloping (super)algebras (17B35)

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• Chern numbers for two families of noncommutative Hopf fibrations
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