connections on simplicial smooth manifolds. Classical Cheeger–Simons differential
characters for simplicial smooth manifolds with respect to Deligne's 'filtration bête'[4] of the
associated de Rham complex were first introduced by Dupont–Hain–Zucker [7] in order to
study the relation between the Cheeger–Chern–Simons invariants of vector bundles with
connections on smooth algebraic varieties and the corresponding characteristic classes in …