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. In the same way as the Cheeger-Simons characters generalize Chern-Simons invariants of oriented closed manifolds, the Cheeger-Chern-Simons …
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This paper solves minimal surface equations near Hardt-Simon foliations.
Computing Chern-Simons action for perturbed Dirac triples
New approach connects 3D Chern-Simons theory to spectral networks.
Alternative proof of Michael-Simon-Sobolev inequality using optimal transport.
Geometrically constructs dilogarithm from Chern-Simons theory.
We define the Simons-Sullivan differential analytic index by translating the Freed-Lott differential analytic index via explicit ring isomorphisms between Freed-Lott differential K-theory and Simons-Sullivan differential K-theory. We prove the differential Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem in Simons-Sullivan differenti…
Unique cylindrical tangent cone for Simons' hypersurface found.
Arithmetic Dijkgraaf-Witten theory constructs analogues in Chern-Simons TQFT.
The abstract discusses conjectures about Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds.
We calculate the asymptotic behavior of hyperbolic volume and Chern-Simons invariant.
New liftings derived from Chern-Simons classes for coherent sheaves.
The paper explores the connection between 3d gravity and Chern-Simons theory using affine group connections.
Lecture notes on Lie groups and Chern-Simons theory for grad students.
We apply our abstract gradient inequalities developed by the authors in arXiv:1510.03817 to prove Lojasiewicz--Simon gradient inequalities for the harmonic map energy function using Sobolev spaces which impose minimal regularity requirements on maps between closed, Riemannian manifolds. Our Lojasiewicz--Simon gradient …
We prove several abstract versions of the Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality for an analytic functional on a Banach space that generalize previous abstract versions of this inequality, weakening their hypotheses and, in particular, the well-known infinite-dimensional version of the gradient inequality due to Lojasie…
Chern-Simons and Reshetikhin-Turaev theories are shown equivalent for U(1) gauge group.
We prove Simon's conjecture for 3-manifolds.
We calculate the Chern-Simons invariants of the hyperbolic double twist knot orbifolds using the Schläfli formula for the generalized Chern-Simons function on the family of cone-manifold structures of double twist knots.
We give an efficient simplicial formula for the volume and Chern-Simons invariant of a boundary-parabolic PSL(2,C)-representation of a tame 3-manifold. If the representation is the geometric representation of a hyperbolic 3-manifold, our formula computes the volume and Chern-Simons invariant directly from an ideal tria…
Chern-Simons theory on a closed contact three-manifold is studied when the Lie group for gauge transformations is compact, connected and abelian. A rigorous definition of an abelian Chern-Simons partition function is derived using the Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing method. A symplectic abelian Chern-Simons partition functi…
New invariant from non-acyclic flat connections.
The Chern-Simons forms for R-linear connections on Lie algebroids are considered. A generalized Chern-Simons formula for such R-linear connections is obtained. We it apply to define Chern character and secondary characteristic classes for R-linear connections of Lie algebroids.
Paper proves Simon's third gap conjecture for minimal surfaces in spheres.
Optimizes transport on submanifolds for curvature inequalities.
Classifies extended Abelian Chern-Simons theories using quadratic modules.
Develops method to compute Chern-Simons potentials from higher-dimensional Pontryagin densities.
Two non-Morse-Bott Chern-Simons functions on homology 3-spheres.
Proves inequalities for tensor fields on submanifolds using ABP method.
We perform a resurgence analysis of the Chern-Simons partition function on a Brieksorn homology sphere . Starting from an exact Chern-Simons partition function, we study the Borel resummation of its perturbative expansion.
We compute the Chern-Simons transgressed forms of some modularly invariant characteristic forms, which are related to the elliptic genera. We study the modularity properties of these secondary characteristic forms and the relations among them. We also compute the Chern-Simons forms of some vector bundles over free loop…
We define an extended Bloch group and show it is isomorphic to . Using the Rogers dilogarithm function this leads to an exact simplicial formula for the universal Cheeger-Simons class on this homology group. It also leads to an independent proof of the analytic relationship between volume and Chern-S…
The paper proves Simon's conjecture for closed Einstein spaces, setting eigenvalue bounds.
There are two natural candidates for the group of relative Cheeger-Simons differential characters. The first directly extends the work of Cheeger and Simons and the second extends the description given by Hopkins and Singer of the Cheeger-Simons group as the homology of a certain cochain complex. We discuss both approa…
We extend finite dimensional Chern-Simons theory to certain infinite dimensional principal bundles with connections, in particular to the frame bundle over the loop space of a Riemannian manifold . Chern-Simons forms are defined roughly as in finite dimensions with the invariant polynomials replaced by a…
We define an extended Bloch group and show it is naturally isomorphic to H_3(PSL(2,C)^δ;Z). Using the Rogers dilogarithm function this leads to an exact simplicial formula for the universal Cheeger-Chern-Simons class on this homology group. It also leads to an independent proof of the analytic relationship between volu…
Non-trivial obstructions found for topological solitons in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories.
In this sequel to arXiv:1510.03817, we apply our abstract Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality to prove Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequalities for coupled Yang-Mills energy functions using Sobolev spaces which impose minimal regularity requirements on pairs of connections and sections. The Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient …
We develop the theory of Chern-Simons bundle 2-gerbes and multiplicative bundle gerbes associated to any principal -bundle with connection and a class in $H^4(BG, \ZZ)$ for a compact semi-simple Lie group . The Chern-Simons bundle 2-gerbe realises differential geometrically the Cheeger-Simons invariant. We apply …
We exhibit the Chern-Simons forms of some characteristic classes in the simplicial de Rham complex.
We calculate the Chern-Simons invariants of the hyperbolic orbifolds of the knot with Conway's notation using the Schläfli formula for the generalized Chern-Simons function on the family of cone-manifold structures. We present the concrete and explicit formula of them. We apply the general instruct…
We study S-dualities in analytically continued SL(2) Chern-Simons theory on a 3-manifold M. By realizing Chern-Simons theory via a compactification of a 6d five-brane theory on M, various objects and symmetries in Chern-Simons theory become related to objects and operations in dual 2d, 3d, and 4d theories. For example,…
The contribution of reducible connections to the U(N) Chern-Simons invariant of a Seifert manifold can be expressed in some cases in terms of matrix integrals. We show that the U(N) evaluation of the LMO invariant of any rational homology sphere admits a matrix model representation which agrees with the Chern-Simon…
Categorifies Stokes coefficients in Chern-Simons theory models.
Diagrammatic method calculates knot invariant related to Chern-Simons theory.
Paper formalizes Simon's satisficing through FFSD, proving its equivalence to expected utility theory.
Chern-Simons invariants of closed oriented Riemannian -manifolds are introduced and studied from the basics. Their first-order variation is the Cotton tensor. The properties of the Cotton tensor: symmetry, conformal covariance, trace- and divergence-freedom, are recovered as corollaries of the Chern-Simons invariant…
New method calculates Chern-Simons volume for 3-manifolds with surgery diagrams.