Index theory, eta forms, and Deligne cohomology

Details Index theory, eta forms, and Deligne cohomology Index theory, eta forms, and Deligne cohomology

2002-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/math/0201112v4

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Differential Geometry

Revised version (some arguments expanded and examples added) 147 pages

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The Chern classes of a K-theory class which is represented by a vector bundle with connection admit refinements to Cheeger-Simons classes in Deligne cohomology. In the present paper we consider similar refinements in the case where the classes in K-theory are represented by geometric families of Dirac operators. In low dimensions these refinements correspond to the exponentiated eta-invariant, the determinant line bundle with Quillen metric and Bismut-Freed connection, and Lott's index gerbe with connection and curving. We give a unified treatement of these cases as well as their higher generalizations. Our main technical tool is a variant of local index theory for Dirac operators of families of manifolds with corners.

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