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Arithmetic Chern-Simons theory with real places

Number Theory 2023-08-23 v2

Abstract

The goal of this paper is two-fold: we generalize the arithmetic Chern-Simons theory over totally imaginary number fields studied in [Kim15, CKK+16] to arbitrary number fields (with real places) and provide new examples of non-trivial arithmetic Chern-Simons invariant with coefficient Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} (n2)(n \geq 2) associated to a non-abelian gauge group. The main idea for the generalization is to use cohomology with compact support (see [Mil06]) to deal with real places. Before the results of this paper, non-trivial examples were limited to some non-abelian gauge group with coefficient Z/2Z\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z} in [CKK+16] and the abelian cyclic gauge group with coefficient Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} in [BCG+18]. Our non-trivial examples (with non-abelian gauge group and general coefficient Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}) will be given by a simple twisting argument based on examples of [BCG+18].

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@article{arxiv.1905.13610,
  title  = {Arithmetic Chern-Simons theory with real places},
  author = {Jungin Lee and Jeehoon Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13610},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, exposition improved

R2 v1 2026-06-23T09:35:18.440Z