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Smooth simplicial sets and universal Chern-Weil for infinite dimensional groups

Algebraic Topology 2025-12-03 v6 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give the construction of the universal, natural up to homotopy Chern-Weil differential graded algebra homomorphism: cw:I(G)Ω(BG,R)cw: \mathcal{I} (G) \to \Omega ^{\bullet } (BG, \mathbb{R}) for infinite dimensional Milnor regular Lie groups GG, where Ω(BG,R)\Omega ^{\bullet}(BG, \mathbb{R}) is a certain de Rham algebra of BGBG (Milnor BGBG up to a natural weak homotopy equivalence) and where I(G)\mathcal{I} (G) is the algebra of continuous, AdGAd _{G} invariant, symmetric multilinear functionals on the Lie algebra. In particular, this applies to the group of compactly generated Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms, using which we verify a conjecture of Reznikov. For the construction of cwcw we introduce a basic geometric-categorical notion of a smooth simplicial set. Loosely, this is to Chen spaces as simplicial sets are to spaces. We then give a new construction of the classifying space of GG as a smooth Kan complex, with the geometric realization weakly equivalent to the Milnor BGBG.

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@article{arxiv.2112.13272,
  title  = {Smooth simplicial sets and universal Chern-Weil for infinite dimensional groups},
  author = {Yasha Savelyev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13272},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Version accepted by J. Lond. Math. Soc., additional details and fixes, 60 pages

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