A Chern-Simons transgression formula for supersymmetric path integrals on spin manifolds

Earlier results show that the N=1/2 supersymmetric path integral Jg on a closed even dimensional Riemannian spin manifold (X,g) can be constructed in a mathematically rigorous way via Chen differential forms and techniques from noncommutative geometry, if one considers Jg as a current on the loop space LX, that is, as a linear form on differential forms on LX. This construction admits a Duistermaat-Heckman localization formula. In this note, fixing a topological spin structure on X, we prove that any smooth family g•=(gt)t∈[0,1] of Riemannian metrics on X canonically induces a Chern-Simons current Cgjavax.xml.bind.JAXBElement@24e357bb which fits into a transgression formula for the supersymmetric path integral. In particular, this result entails that the supersymmetric path integral induces a differential topological invariant on X, which essentially stems from the Aˆ-genus of X.