A functorial approach to differential characters
Algebraic Topology
2014-10-01 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We describe Cheeger-Simons differential characters in terms of a variant of Turaev's homotopy quantum field theories based on chains in a smooth manifold X.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0212128,
title = {A functorial approach to differential characters},
author = {Paul Turner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0212128},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-6.abs.html