2-plectic geometry, Courant algebroids, and categorified prequantization (Q360428)

This paper studies 2-plectic geometry. Let us recall that a 2-plectic manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with a closed, nondegenerate form of degree 3. In this work, the author shows that there exists a Lie 2-algebra morphism which embeds the Lie 2-algebra of Hamiltonian 1-forms into the Lie 2-algebra of global sections of the corresponding exact Courant algebroid. Then, he gives a generalization (in higher degrees) of the well-known Kostant-Souriau central extension in symplectic geometry. The results are also interpreted in the framework of the prequantization procedure.