Relative Topological Integrals and Relative Cheeger-Simons Differential Characters

Details Relative Topological Integrals and Relative Cheeger-Simons Differential Characters Relative Topological Integrals and Relative Cheeger-Simons Differential Characters

2000-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0010110v3

J.Geom.Phys. 46 (2003) 355-393

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

49 pages, Plain TeX, no figures, requires AMS font files AMSSYM.DEF and amssym.tex; final version

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Topological integrals appear frequently in Lagrangian field theories. On manifolds without boundary, they can be treated in the framework of (absolute) (co)homology using the formalism of Cheeger--Simons differential characters. String and D--brane theory involve field theoretic models on worldvolumes with boundary. On manifolds with boundary, the proper treatment of topological integrals requires a generalization of the usual differential topological set up and leads naturally to relative (co)homology and relative Cheeger--Simons differential characters. In this paper, we present a construction of relative Cheeger--Simons differential characters which is computable in principle and which contains the ordinary Cheeger--Simons differential characters as a particular case.

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