Curvature on determinant bundles and first Chern forms
Paycha, Sylvie ; Rosenberg, Steven
arXiv, 0009172 / Harvested from arXiv
The Quillen-Bismut-Freed construction associates a determinant line bundle with connection to an infinite dimensional super vector bundle with a family of Dirac-type operators. We define the regularized first Chern form of the infinite dimensional bundle, and relate it to the curvature of the Bismut-Freed connection on the determinant bundle. In finite dimensions, these forms agree (up to sign), but in infinite dimensions there is a correction term, which we express in terms of Wodzicki residues. We illustrate these results with a string theory computation. There is a natural super vector bundle over the manifold of smooth almost complex structures on a Riemannian surface. The Bismut-Freed superconnection is identified with classical Teichmuller theory connections, and its curvature and regularized first Chern form are computed.
Publié le : 2000-09-18
Classification:  Mathematics - Differential Geometry,  Mathematical Physics
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     title = {Curvature on determinant bundles and first Chern forms},
     journal = {arXiv},
     volume = {2000},
     number = {0},
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     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/0009172}
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Paycha, Sylvie; Rosenberg, Steven. Curvature on determinant bundles and first Chern forms. arXiv, Tome 2000 (2000) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/0009172/