Renormalised Chern-Weil forms associated with families of Dirac operators

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.03.001zbMATH Open1120.58018arXivmath/0607148OpenAlexW2103556521MaRDI QIDQ998003FDOQ998003

Authors: Jouko Mickelsson, Sylvie Paycha 

Publication date: 10 August 2007

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide local expressions for Chern-Weil type forms built from superconnections associated with families of Dirac operators previously investigated in work by S. Scott and later work by S. Scott and the second author. When the underlying fibration of manifolds is trivial, the even degree forms can be interpreted as renormalised Chern-Weil forms in as far as they coincide with regularised Chern-Weil forms up to residue correction terms. Similarly, a new formula for the curvature of the local fermionic vacuum line bundles is derived using a residue correction term added to the naive curvature formula. We interpret the odd degree Chern-Weil type forms built from superconnections as Wodzicki residues and establish a transgression formula along the lines of known transgression formulae for eta-forms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607148

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern charactergerbesindex theorems for Dirac type operatorsinfinite dimensional Grassmann manifoldsinfinite rank vector bundlesrenormalised tracesresidues of pseudodifferential operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

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