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arxiv: math/0212128 · v2 · pith:55ILMII5new · submitted 2002-12-09 · 🧮 math.AT · math.QA

A functorial approach to differential characters

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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.

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