Quasi-Hamiltonian reduction via classical Chern-Simons theory (Q895557)

The author defines the shifted symplectic structures and Lagrangian morphisms and shows that by composing Lagrangian correspondences using pullbacks, one gets a composition in the category LagrCorr\(_n\). It is shown how the ordinary symplectic reduction and quasi-Hamiltonian reduction is adapted to shifted symplectic structures. Further, the correspondence between the operations in classical Chern-Simons theory and quasi-Hamiltonian reduction is explicitly given. Finally, a prequantization of the analytic character stack starting with a prequantization of the classifying stack BGL\(_n\) is provided.