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Motivated by recent developments of $\infty$-categorical theories related to differential graded (dg for short) Lie algebras, we develop a general framework for locally finite $\infty$-$\mathfrak{g}$-modules over a dg Lie algebra…

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We give the construction of the universal, natural up to homotopy Chern-Weil differential graded algebra homomorphism: $$cw: \mathcal{I} (G) \to \Omega ^{\bullet } (BG, \mathbb{R})$$ for infinite dimensional Milnor regular Lie groups $G$,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Yasha Savelyev

We develop a Chern-Weil theory for compact Lie group action whose generic stabilizers are finite in the framework of equivariant cohomology. This provides a method of changing an equivariant closed form within its cohomological class to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Jian Zhou

We prove a local-global principle for $\infty$-categories over any base $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$: we show that any $\infty$-category $\mathcal{B} \to \mathcal{C}$ over $\mathcal{C}$ is determined by the following data: the collection…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Hadrian Heine

In this note, we give a description of the modular functor associated to the Chern-Simons theory with a finite group from the complex-analytic point of view, i.e. as a vector bundle with a flat connection on the moduli space of punctured…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kirillov

In this paper we extend the Chern-Weil-Lecomte characteristic map to the setting of $L_{\infty}$-algebras. In this general framework, characteristic classes of $L_{\infty}$-algebra extensions are defined by means of the Chern-Weil-Lecomte…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Juan Sebastian Herrera-Carmona , Cristian Ortiz

Chern-Weil and Chern-Simons theory extend to certain infinite-rank bundles that appear in mathematical physics. We discuss what is known of the invariant theory of the corresponding infinite-dimensional Lie groups. We use these techniques…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Steven Rosenberg

A cocycle $\Omega: P \times G \to H$ taking values in a Lie group $H$ for a free right action of $G$ on $P$ defines a principal bundle $Q$ with the structure group $H$ over $P/G.$ The Chern character of a vector bundle associated to $Q$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-11 Jouko Mickelsson

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold. We use Chern-Weil theory to study the characteristic classes of principal $G$-bundles built from continuous families of $\pi_{1}(M)$-representations, where $G$ is a compact Lie group. We then relate these…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Andrew Davis

We introduce a canonical Chern-Weil map for possibly non-commutative g-differential algebras with connection. Our main observation is that the generalized Chern-Weil map is an algebra homomorphism ``up to g-homotopy''. Hence, the induced…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-24 A. Alekseev , E. Meinrenken

We describe an $A_\infty$-quasi-equivalence of dg-categories between the first authors' $\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{A}}$ ---the category of category of prefect $A^0$-modules with flat $\Z$-connection, corresponding to the de Rham dga…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-05 Jonathan Block , Aaron M. Smith

We study local systems of $(\infty,n)$-categories on spaces. We prove that categorical local systems are captured by (higher) monodromy data: in particular, if $X$ is $(n+1)$-connected, then local systems of $(\infty,n)$-categories over $X$…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-25 James Pascaleff , Emanuele Pavia , Nicolò Sibilla

To each second-order ordinary differential equation $\sigma $ on a smooth manifold $M$ a $G$-structure $P^\sigma $ on $J^1(\mathbb{R},M)$ is associated and the Chern connection $\nabla ^\sigma $ attached to $\sigma $ is proved to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-17 J. Muñoz-Masqué , E. Rosado María

We prove a categorified version of the Poincar\'e lemma. The natural setting for our result is that of $\infty$-local systems. More precisely, we show that any smooth homotopy between maps $f$ and $g$ induces an $\mathsf{A}_\infty$-natural…

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We revisit sheaves on locales by placing them in the context of the theory of quantale modules. The local homeomorphisms $p:X\to B$ are identified with the Hilbert $B$-modules that are equipped with a natural notion of basis. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Pedro Resende , Elias Rodrigues

We construct Chern-Weil classes on infinite dimensional vector bundles with structure group contained in the algebra $\cl[\leq 0](M, E)$ of non-positive order classical pseudo-differential operators acting on a finite rank vector bundle $E$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Paycha , Steven Rosenberg

In this paper we propose a new treatment about infinite dimensional manifolds, using the language of category and functor. Our definition of infinite dimensional manifolds is a natural generalization of finite dimensional manifolds in the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Lin Xianzu

We propose the notion of a supercategory as an alternative approach to supermathematics. We show that this setting is rich to carry out many of the basic constructions of supermathematics. We also prove generalizations of a number of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-02-08 Martin Andler , Siddhartha Sahi

We introduce the notion of a {\vartheta}-summable Fredholm module over a locally convex dg algebra {\Omega} and construct its Chern character as a cocycle on the entire cyclic complex of {\Omega}, extending the construction of Jaffe,…

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In the framework of locally covariant quantum field theory, a theory is described as a functor from a category of spacetimes to a category of *-algebras. It is proposed that the global gauge group of such a theory can be identified as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Christopher J. Fewster
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