A general method of constructing multi-valued functionals

DOI10.1007/BF00570765MaRDI QIDQ579669zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. N. Savitskaya, S. N. Vergeles

Publication date 1987

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00570765

zbMATH Keywords

dual homotopy elementshomotopy periodsminimal modelmultivalued functionals on the function space of null-homotopic maps from spheres to manifoldsquantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Review text

A general method of constructing multivalued functionals on the function space of null-homotopic maps from spheres to manifolds (or simplicial complexes), via a reformulation of the homotopy periods in Sullivan theory, was proposed by \textit{S. P. Novikov} [Usp. Mat. Nauk 39, No.5(239), 97-106 (1984; Zbl 0619.58002)]. This note gives a (slight) modification of Novikov's method, by making a choice which severely restricts the indeterminacy. According to this choice, the multivalues only differ by homotopy periods, and consequently a lattice of dual homotopy elements may be constructed with the property that the corresponding functionals are quantized (single-valued).

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