From sparks to grundles -- differential characters

DOI10.4310/CAG.2006.V14.N1.A2zbMATH Open1116.53048arXivmath/0306193OpenAlexW2964125946WikidataQ115205481 ScholiaQ115205481MaRDI QIDQ871736FDOQ871736

H. Blaine jun. Lawson, F. Reese Harvey

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new homological machine for the study of secondary geometric invariants. The objects, called spark complexes, occur in many areas of mathematics. The theory is applied here to establish the equivalence of a large family of spark complexes which appear naturally in geometry, topology and physics. These complexes are quite different. Some of them are purely analytic, some are simplicial, some are of Cech-type, and many are mixtures. However, the associated theories of secondary invariants are all shown to be canonically isomorphic. We also show that Differential characters factor to a much smaller, more geometric group, the set of holonomy maps. Numerous applications and examples are explored.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306193

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zbMATH Keywords

gerbescurrentsdifferential charactersspark complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integral geometry (53C65) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

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• Lectures on Cohomology, T-Duality, and Generalized Geometry
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• Trivializations of differential cocycles
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• Uniqueness of differential characters and differential \(K\)-theory via homological algebra
• Relative differential characters
• A geometric description of differential cohomology
• Aeppli-Bott-Chern cohomology and Deligne cohomology from a viewpoint of Harvey-Lawson's spark complex
• A generalization of Abel's theorem and the Abel-Jacobi map

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