The geometry of loop spaces. II: Characteristic classes.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.10.001MaRDI QIDQ895550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshiaki Maeda, Steven Rosenberg, Fabian Torres-Ardila

Publication date 3 December 2015

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2491

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesdiffeomorphism groupsloop spacespseudodifferential operatorsWodzicki residue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Abstract: Using the Wodzicki residue, we build Wodzicki-Chern-Simons (WCS) classes in $H^{2k-1}(LM)$ associated to the residue Chern character on the loop space $LM$ of a Riemannian manifold $M^{2k-1}$. These WCS classes are associated to the $L^2$ connection and the Sobolev $s=1$ connections on $LM.$ The WCS classes detect several families of 5-manifolds whose diffeomorphism group has infinite fundamental group. These manifolds are the total spaces of the circle bundles associated to a multiple $pomega,|p|gg0$, of the K"ahler form $omega$ over an integral K"ahler surface.

Review text

The paper is a continuation of [the authors, Int. J. Math. 26, No. 4, Article ID 1540002, 26 p. (2015; Zbl 1327.58027)]. The two parts study the geometry of loop spaces by defining Chern-Weil type invariants using Wodzicki residues, a natural choice of trace on the Lie algebra of the structure group. For a bundle \(\mathcal{E}\to M\) of Sobolev spaces (on some auxiliary closed manifold \(N\)) with structure group \(\Psi\mathrm{DO}^*_0(N)\) (the pseudo-differential operators of order \(0\) on \(N\)), the authors define Wodzicki-Chern-Weil type and Wodzicki-Chern-Simons type invariants of connections on \(\mathcal{E}\). The Wodzicki-Chern-Weil invariants often vanish, e.g. if the structure group reduces to the gauge group. However, the authors find interesting cases where the Wodzicki-Chern-Simons invariants are non-zero. These examples are used to prove that \(\pi_1(\mathrm{Diff}(M))\) is infinite for a large class of \(5\)-manifolds \(M\).

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