# nLab equivariant ordinary differential cohomology

Contents

### Context

#### Differential cohomology

differential cohomology

## Application to gauge theory

#### Representation theory

representation theory

geometric representation theory

# Contents

## Idea

Equivariant ordinary differential cohomology or equivariant Deligne cohomology is the equivariant cohomology-enhancement of ordinary differential cohomology (Deligne cohomology), equivalently the differential cohomology-enhancement of ordinary equivariant cohomology.

There is one evident general abstract definition of what this means concretely: Given a $G$-action on some $X$, the (Borel-)$G$-equivariant ordinary differential cohomology of $X$ in degree $n$ is the (∞,1)-categorical hom-space in the cohesive (∞,1)-topos of Smooth∞Groupoids from the quotient stack $X \sslash G$ to the Deligne complex $\mathbf{B}^n U(1)_{conn}$.

That various definitions in the literature coincide with this one (in particular Kübel-Thom 15, and for finite groups also Lupercio-Uribe 01, Gomi 05) is discussed in (Park-Redden 19).

## References

The main definitions can be found in

An earlier definition thst works (only) for finite groups can be found in:

Other references:

Relation to action functionals for topological field theories (such as Chern-Simons theory):

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