Higher-twisted periodic smooth Deligne cohomology
Abstract
Degree one twisting of Deligne cohomology, as a differential refinement of integral cohomology, was established in previous work. Here we consider higher degree twists. The Rham complex, hence de Rham cohomology, admits twists of any odd degree. However, in order to consider twists of integral cohomology we need a periodic version. Combining the periodic versions of both ingredients leads us to introduce a periodic form of Deligne cohomology. We demonstrate that this theory indeed admits a twist by a gerbe of any odd degree. We present the main properties of the new theory and illustrate its use with examples and computations, mainly via a corresponding twisted differential Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence.
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@article{arxiv.1712.05971,
title = {Higher-twisted periodic smooth Deligne cohomology},
author = {Daniel Grady and Hisham Sati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05971},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
25 pages, paragraph added to introduction, references added