Higher analytic torsion and cohomology of diffeomorphism groups

Details Higher analytic torsion and cohomology of diffeomorphism groups Higher analytic torsion and cohomology of diffeomorphism groups

1997-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9712001v1

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Differential Geometry

13 pages, LATEX

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We consider a closed odd-dimensional oriented manifold $M$ together with an acyclic flat hermitean vector bundle $\cF$. We form the trivial fibre bundle with fibre $M$ over the manifold of all Riemannian metrics on $M$. It has a natural flat connection and a vertical Riemannian metric. The higher analytic torsion form of Bismut/Lott associated to the situation is invariant with respect to the connected component of the identity of the diffeomorphism group of $M$. Using that the space of Riemannian metrics is contractible we define continuous cohomology classes of the diffeomorphism group and its Lie algebra. For the circle we compute this classes in degree 2 and show that the group cohomology class is non-trivial, while the Lie algebra cohomology class vanishes.

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