{"title":"The dilogarithm and abelian Chern–Simons","authors":"D. Freed, A. Neitzke","doi":"10.4310/jdg/1680883577","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We construct the (enhanced Rogers) dilogarithm function from the spin Chern-Simons invariant of C*-connections. This leads to geometric proofs of basic dilogarithm identities and a geometric context for other properties, such as the branching structure.","PeriodicalId":15642,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Differential Geometry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Differential Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1680883577","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We construct the (enhanced Rogers) dilogarithm function from the spin Chern-Simons invariant of C*-connections. This leads to geometric proofs of basic dilogarithm identities and a geometric context for other properties, such as the branching structure.
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