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The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants from second Chern classes

Geometric Topology 2024-11-27 v3

Abstract

Given a 3-cocycle ψ\psi in the cohomology of a finite group GG, we can define the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant of closed 3-manifolds. In this paper, we focus on the case where ψ\psi is a 3-cocycle canonically obtained from the second Chern class of a representation of GG, and show some procedures for computing the invariant, and clarify its topological interpretation under some conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10378,
  title  = {The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants from second Chern classes},
  author = {Takefumi Nosaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10378},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

11 pages and no figure. I revised several minor errors. To appear the Mathematical Journal of Okayama University

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