Gravity from Lie algebroid morphisms

DOI10.1007/S00220-003-1026-YMaRDI QIDQ701713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Strobl

Publication date 16 December 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310168

zbMATH Keywords

gravityLie algebroidssurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: Inspired by the Poisson Sigma Model and its relation to 2d gravity, we consider models governing morphisms from TSigma to any Lie algebroid E, where Sigma is regarded as d-dimensional spacetime manifold. We address the question of minimal conditions to be placed on a bilinear expression in the 1-form fields, S^ij(X) A_i A_j, so as to permit an interpretation as a metric on Sigma. This becomes a simple compatibility condition of the E-tensor S with the chosen Lie algebroid structure on E. For the standard Lie algebroid E=TM the additional structure is identified with a Riemannian foliation of M, in the Poisson case E=T^*M with a sub-Riemannian structure which is Poisson invariant with respect to its annihilator bundle. (For integrable image of S, this means that the induced Riemannian leaves should be invariant with respect to all Hamiltonian vector fields of functions which are locally constant on this foliation). This provides a huge class of new gravity models in d dimensions, embedding known 2d and 3d models as particular examples.

Review text

The author raises the question of finding the conditions under which it is possible to define a reasonable theory of gravity on a two-dimensional manifold. Let \(M\) be a manifold and let \(S\) be a two-dimensional manifold. After recalling the definition of Lie algebroids over \(M\), the author determines minimal conditions to be placed in order to permit an interpretation as a metric on the surface \(S\). The main result is then proved and applied to particular Lie algebroids (the standard Lie algebroid : \(TM\) and the Poisson case). Finally, the author gives a detailled outlook with open questions and interesting ideas to be developed.

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