Loop spaces, characteristic classes and geometric quantization

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Authors Jean-Luc Brylinski

Publication date 21 November 1994

Published in Progress in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

3- curvatureCheeger-Simons differential charactersChern-Cheeger-Simons classcohomologycomplex structureconnectionsconnective structurecurvaturedegree 3 cohomology theoryDeligne cohomologyDirac magnetic monopoleDixmier-Douady sheaves of groupoidsfree loop spacegerbesinfinite-dimensional algebra bundlesKostant- Souriau central extension of the Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fieldsKähler manifoldLeray spectral sequenceline bundlesprojective Hilbert space bundlesquantizationRham cohomologysheavessheaves of groupoidsspace of singular knots in a smooth 3- manifoldsymplectic structuresymplectomorphismstorsorstransgression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10)

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• Borsuk-Ulam theorem for the loop space of a sphere
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• \(T\)-duality: topology change from \(H\)-flux
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• The geometry of two-dimensional symbols
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• Hamiltonian monodromy via geometric quantization and theta functions
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• An algebraic description of screw dislocations in SC and BCC crystal lattices
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