Trivializations of differential cocycles

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2012-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2919v2

Mathematics

Algebraic Topology

20 pages; several minor corrections/revisions in v2

Scientific paper

Associated to a differential character is an integral cohomology class, referred to as the characteristic class, and a closed differential form, referred to as the curvature. The characteristic class and curvature are equal in de Rham cohomology, and this is encoded in a commutative square. In the Hopkins--Singer model, where differential characters are equivalence classes of differential cocycles, there is a natural notion of trivializing a differential cocycle. In this paper, we extend the notion of characteristic class, curvature, and de Rham class to trivializations of differential cocycles. These structures fit into a commutative square, and this square is a torsor for the commutative square associated to characters with degree one less. Under the correspondence between degree 2 differential cocycles and principal circle bundles with connection, we recover familiar structures associated to global sections.

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