Abstract
We describe Cheeger–Simons differential characters in terms of a variant of Turaev’s homotopy quantum field theories based on chains in a smooth manifold .
Citation
Paul Turner. "A functorial approach to differential characters." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4 (1) 81 - 93, 2004. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2004.4.81
Information
Received: 6 February 2003; Accepted: 20 May 2003; Published: 2004
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2017
zbMATH: 1058.57024
MathSciNet: MR2031913
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2004.4.81
Subjects:
Primary:
57R56
Secondary:
53C05
,
58A10
,
81T15
Keywords:
differential character
,
homotopy quantum field theory
Rights: Copyright © 2004 Mathematical Sciences Publishers