Differential geometric invariants for time-reversal symmetric Bloch bundles II: The low-dimensional "quaternionic" case
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2023
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This paper is devoted to the construction of differential geometric invariants for the classification of "quaternionic" vector bundles. Provided that the base space is a smooth manifold of dimension two or three endowed with an involution that leaves fixed only a finite number of points, it is possible to prove that the Wess-Zumino term and the Chern-Simons invariant yield topological invariants able to distinguish between inequivalent realizations of "quaternionic" structures. This is a nontrivial generalization of results previously known only in the case of tori with time-reversal involution.