Infinite Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory

Authors Steven Rosenberg, Fabian Torres-Ardila

Publication date 8 November 2004

Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

Abstract: We extend finite dimensional Chern-Simons theory to certain infinite dimensional principal bundles with connections, in particular to the frame bundle

F L M o L M

over the loop space of a Riemannian manifold

M

. Chern-Simons forms are defined roughly as in finite dimensions with the invariant polynomials replaced by appropriate Wodzicki residues. This produces odd dimensional

-valued cohomology classes on

L M

if

M

is parallelizable. We compute an example of a metric on the loop space of

S^{3} i m e s S^{1}

for which the three dimensional Chern-Simons class is nontrivial.

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