Seminarium "The Trans-Carpathian Seminar on Geometry & Physics"

I shall formulate and illustrate on a simple and physically meaningful example the general principle by which (generalised Cheeger-Simons) differential characters and related transport operators defined by geometrisations of de Rham classes on the configuration bundle of a field theory with topological charges realise - in a concrete and computable manner - Segal's ambitious dream of functorial quantisation within and beyond the topological category. Time permitting, I shall also discuss certain important consequences of that principle.