Brownian surfaces with boundary and Deligne cohomology (Q1430981)

The paper concerns the construction of infinite-dimensional diffusion processes over infinite-dimensional manifolds. The study is related to the construction of a Brownian motion over a continuous based loop group [see \textit{H. Airault} and \textit{P. Malliavin}, J. Funct. Anal. 104, No. 1, 71--109 (1992; Zbl 0787.22021) and \textit{Z. Brzeźniak} and \textit{K. D. Elworthy}, Methods Funct. Anal. Topol. 6, No. 1, 43--84 (2000; Zbl 0965.58028)]. This produces random cylinders but gives (1+1)-dimensional theory because the distinction between the internal time of the loop and the time of the propagation of the loop (one obtains a random surface with two boundaries, the input loop and the output loop). Some random pants were constructed [see \textit{Z. Brzeźniak} and the author, Potential Anal. 12, No. 3, 249--280 (2000; Zbl 0960.58020)] and there are two exit loops and one input loop associated to pants. When the two exit loops meet, there is a fusion of the two stochastic line bundles. One can consider a Hilbert space associated to the loop space but it could not fulfill completely the Segal axioms of conformal field theory: the two exit loops were not independent and one does not consider the tensor product of the Hilbert spaces associated to the exit loops. The goal of the paper is to introduce two improvements. First, one considers a general surface boundary, without specifying a time of propagation and an internal time of the loop. Second, one considers tensor product of Hilbert spaces, that is, the boundary loops are independent.