Conjecture on Beilinson and Cheeger–Chern classes of universal flat bundles

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Let BGLn(C)δBGL_n({\mathbb C})^\delta be the simplicial classifying space of the discrete group GLn(C)GL_n({\mathbb C}), and let cpBc_p^B and c^p\widehat{c}_p be, respectively, the Beilinson and modified universal Chern classes in

H2p−1(BGLn(C)δ,C/Z(p)).H^{2p-1}(BGL_n({\mathbb C})^\delta,{\mathbb C}/{\mathbb Z}(p)).

Beilinson–Cheeger–Chern class conjecture. For all p≥1p \geq 1 and n∈N∪{∞}n \in {\mathbb N} \cup\{\infty\},

cpB=c^p∈H2p−1(BGLn(C)δ,C/Z(p)).c_p^B=\widehat{c}_p \in H^{2p-1}(BGL_n({\mathbb C})^\delta,{\mathbb C}/{\mathbb Z}(p)).

If true, this would identify the universal Beilinson Chern class for flat bundles with the modified Cheeger–Chern class and, together with the preceding theorem, imply that it is represented by half the Borel regulator element. The statement is presented as conjectural because the authors were unable to prove the relevant simplicial analogue.

References

Primary source

Johan Dupont, Richard Hain and Steven Zucker, “Regulators and characteristic classes of flat bundles”, arXiv:alg-geom/9202023 (2000).

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