Infinite Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory

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Authors: Steven Rosenberg, Fabian Torres-Ardila 

Publication date: 8 November 2004

Abstract: We extend finite dimensional Chern-Simons theory to certain infinite dimensional principal bundles with connections, in particular to the frame bundle $FLMoLM$ 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 $LM$ if $M$ is parallelizable. We compute an example of a metric on the loop space of $S^{3}imes{S}^1$ for which the three dimensional Chern-Simons class is nontrivial.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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