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A note on the Venice lemma in differential K-theory

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We give a new and intuitive proof that Freed–Lott–Klonoff differential K-theory and Simons–Sullivan differential K-theory are naturally isomorphic.

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We thank Mahmoud Zeinalian for giving motivation to write this paper. We also thank the anonymous referee for careful reading and helpful comments.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (The Ministry of Science and ICT) (No. 2020R1G1A1A01008746)

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Park, B. A note on the Venice lemma in differential K-theory. Arch. Math. 118, 215–224 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-021-01681-2

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