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Cheeger-Simons differential characters with compact support and Pontryagin duality
Christian Becker, Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel +1
By adapting the Cheeger-Simons approach to differential cohomology, we establish a notion of differential cohomology with compact support. We show that it is functorial with respec…
Abelian duality on globally hyperbolic spacetimes
Christian Becker, Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel +1
We study generalized electric/magnetic duality in Abelian gauge theory by combining techniques from locally covariant quantum field theory and Cheeger-Simons differential cohomolog…
Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory
Christian Becker, Alexander Schenkel, Richard J. Szabo
We study differential cohomology on categories of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. The Lorentzian metric allows us to define a natural transformation whose kernel generali…
Cheeger-Chern-Simons theory and differential String classes
Christian Becker
We introduce certain relative differential characters which we call Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters. These combine the well-known Cheeger-Simons characters with Chern-Simons forms.…
Relative differential cohomology
Christian Becker
We study two notions of relative differential cohomology, using the model of differential characters. The two notions arise from the two options to construct relative homology, eit…
Differential Characters and Geometric Chains
Christian Baer, Christian Becker
We study Cheeger-Simons differential characters and provide geometric descriptions of the ring structure and of the fiber integration map. The uniqueness of differential cohomology…