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Christoph Wockel

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arXiv2006

Lie Group Structures on Symmetry Groups of Principal Bundles

In this paper we describe how one can obtain Lie group structures on the group of (vertical) bundle automorphisms for a locally convex principal bundle P over the compact manifold M. This is done by first considering Lie group structures on the group of vertical bundle automorphisms Gau(P). Then the full automorphism group Aut(P) is considered as an extension of the open subgroup Diff(M)_P of diffeomorphisms of M preserving the equivalence class of P under pull-backs, by the gauge group Gau(P). We derive explicit conditions for the extensions of these Lie group structures, show the smoothness of some natural actions and relate our results to affine Kac--Moody algebras and groups.

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arXiv2006

A Generalisation of Steenrod's Approximation Theorem

In this paper we aim for a generalisation of the Steenrod Approximation Theorem from, concerning a smoothing procedure for sections in smooth locally trivial bundles. The generalisation is that we consider locally trivial smooth bundles with a possibly infinite-dimensional typical fibre. The main result states that a continuous section in a smooth locally trivial bundles can always be smoothed out in a very controlled way (in terms of the graph topology on spaces of continuous functions), preserving the section on regions where it is already smooth.

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arXiv2006

The Samelson Product and Rational Homotopy for Gauge Groups

This paper is on the connecting homomorphism in the long exact homotopy sequence of the evaluation fibration $ev_{p_0}:C(P,K)^K \to K$, where $C(P,K)^K \cong Gau(P)$ is the gauge group of a continuous principal $K$-bundle $P$ over a closed orientable surface or a sphere. We show that in this cases the connecting homomorphism in the corresponding long exact homotopy sequence is given in terms of the Samelson product. As applications, we exploit this correspondence to get an explicit formula for $π_2 (Gau(P_k))$, where $P_k$ denotes the principal $S^3$-bundle over $S^4$ of Chern number $k$ and derive explicit formulae for the rational homotopy groups $π_n (Gau(P)) \otimes \Q$.

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arXiv2005

Smooth Extensions and Spaces of Smooth and Holomorphic Mappings

In this paper we present another notion of a smooth manifold with corners and relate it to the commonly used concept in the literature. Afterwards we introduce complex manifolds with corners and show that if $M$ is a compact (respectively complex) manifold with corners and $K$ is a smooth (respectively complex) Lie group, then $C^{\infty}(M,K)$ (respectively $C^{\infty}_{\C}(M,K)$) is a smooth (respectively complex) Lie group.

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