Canonical local identifications of transgressed flat bundles

Let GG be a compact Lie group acting smoothly on a compact manifold MM, and let b1HG3(M,Z)b1\in H^3_G(M,\mathbb Z). For each gGg\in G, let PgMgP^g\to M^g be the associated GG-equivariant flat S1S^1-bundle. If h=gexpXGgh=g\exp X\in G^g with XggX\in\mathfrak g^g is sufficiently near gg, then the canonical-identification conjecture. There exists a canonical isomorphism of flat S1S^1-bundles over MhM^h,

ϕgh:PhPgMh,\phi_{gh}:P^h\xrightarrow{\cong}P^g|_{M^h},

where PgMhMhP^g|_{M^h}\to M^h is the restriction of PgMgP^g\to M^g along MhMgM^h\subseteq M^g. Such identifications are needed to assemble the local coefficient systems into a sheaf of global twisted equivariant differential forms and thereby define delocalized twisted equivariant cohomology. The source presents this as a proposed construction, and gives no evidence that the asserted canonical isomorphism has been established.

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Jean-Louis Tu and Ping Xu, “Periodic Cyclic Homology and Equivariant Gerbes”, arXiv:1504.08064 (2015).

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