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A functorial approach to differential characters
Turner, Paul1
1School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland
Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 4 (2004) no. 1, pp. 81-93
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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 X.

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2004.4.81
Keywords: differential character, homotopy quantum field theory

Turner, Paul  1

1 School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland 
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