Towards a quantization of the double via the enhanced symplectic ``category'' (Q2036393)

Fix a compact \(1\)-connected simple Lie group \(G\) and denote by \(D(G)=G\times G\) its \textit{internally fused double} considered here as a quasi-Hamiltonian analogue of the Hamiltonian \(G\)-space \(T^{\ast}G\). The paper under review investigates the possibility of quantizing \(D(G)\) via universal centralizers \(\Lambda _{C}\subseteq D(G)\) and the enhanced symplectic ``category''. Here \(C\subseteq G\) ranges over the regular \(\frac{1}{k}\)-integral conjugacy classes of \(G\) where \(k\) is a fixed positive integer. The role of the character Lagrangian \(\Lambda _O\subseteq T^{\ast }G\) in a quantization of \(T^{\ast }G\) via the enhanced symplectic ``category'' might therefore suggest a similar role for \(\Lambda _C\) in quantizing \(D(G)\). An interesting geometric feature of \(D(G)\) is provided by the Dehn twist automorphism \(R:D(G)\rightarrow D(G)\) that lacks a natural Hamiltonian analogue.