Loop spaces, characteristic classes and geometric quantization
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
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)
After an introductory section, the present book contains seven chapters, a rich bibliography, a list of notations and an index of notions. Chapter 1 is an introduction to sheaves, complexes of sheaves, and their cohomology, covering standard aspects, and also a few less standard ones which are needed in the rest of the book. There are discussed de Rham cohomology, Deligne cohomology and the Cheeger-Simons differential characters, as well as the Leray spectral sequence for a mapping and a complex of sheaves. Chapter 2 introduces line bundles, their relation with \(H^ 2\), connections and curvature. The theory of Kostant and Deligne relating line bundles with connection to Deligne cohomology is detailed, both in the smooth and in the holomorphic case. It is explained the Kostant- Souriau central extension of the Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields and the Kostant central extension of the group of symplectomorphisms. Chapter 3 presents a number of geometric results on the space \(\widetilde{Y}\) of singular knots in a smooth 3-manifold \(M\). The striking fact is that \(\widetilde {Y}\) looks exactly like a Kähler manifold. It has a complex structure, which, by a theorem of Lempert, is integrable in a weak sense. It has a symplectic structure that is familiar from fluid mechanics. The symplectic form of \(\widetilde {Y}\) has integral cohomology class. Finally, \(\widetilde {Y}\) has a Riemannian structure, which is compatible with both the symplectic and complex structures. Chapter 4 exposes the first level of degree 3 cohomology theory. The theory of Dixmier and Douady, based on infinite-dimensional algebra bundles is exposed and the general obstruction of lifting the structure group of a principal bundle to a central extension of the group is formulated. The relevant geometric concepts leading to the notion of 3- curvature are developed and examples of projective Hilbert space bundles are presented. Chapter 5, really the heart of the book, exposes the second level of this theory using sheaves of groupoids. The author begins with a discussion of the glueing properties of sheaves with respect to surjective local homeomorphisms, and introduces the notion of torsors, which is a generalization of principal bundles. Next, he defines sheaves of groupoids and gerbes using glueing axioms that mimic the glueing properties of sheaves. The gerbe associated to a \(G\)-bundle over \(M\) and a group extension \(\widetilde {G}\) of \(G\) is discussed. Given a gerbe \(C\), there is an associated sheaf of groups, called the band of \(C\). Gerbes with band equal to the sheaf of smooth \(C^*\)-valued functions are called Dixmier-Douady sheaves of groupoids. The differential of such sheaves of groupoids is developed, for which the exotic names ``connective structure and ``curving were invented. A differential form of degree 3 is defined and called the 3-curvature of the sheaf of groupoids. The group of equivalence classes of sheaves of groupoids of Dixmier-Douady type, with connective structure and curving, is identified with the Deligne cohomology group \(H^ 3(M,Z(2)_ D)\). Many examples and applications are given. Chapter 6 gives the construction of a line bundle on the space \(LM\) of loops of \(M\) associated to a sheaf of groupoids on \(M\) with connective structure. The construction is in some sense very explicit, in a spirit similar to the construction of a tautological line bundle. The curvature of the line bundle on \(LM\) is the 2-form obtained by transgressing the 3- curvature of the sheaf of groupoids over \(M\). This construction corresponds to a transgression map \(H^ 3 (M,Z(2)_ D) \to H^ 2(LM, Z(1)_ D)\) in Deligne cohomology. Finally, the notion of parallel transport in the context of sheaves of groupoids is discussed. Chapter 7 treats the Dirac magnetic monopole, and the resulting quantization condition for a closed 3-form on the 3-sphere. First, the author explains Dirac's construction and its classical mathematical interpretation using a 2-sphere centered at the monopole. Next, he gives his purely 3-dimensional approach, in which the monopole is viewed as a sheaf of groupoids on the 3-sphere. The quantization condition follows from the theory of Chapter 5. Finally, the obstruction to SU(2)- equivalence is studied and it is shown that the obstruction to make the monopole sheaf of groupoids \(C\) over \(S^ 3\) equivariant under SU(2) coincides with the Chern-Cheeger-Simons class \(\delta_ 2 \in H^ 3 (\text{SU}(2), T)\).
- Towards a Lie theory of locally convex groups
- D-branes, RR-fields and duality on noncommutative manifolds
- Non-abelian differentiable gerbes
- Gerbes, 2-gerbes and symplectic fibrations
- Differential twisted K-theory and applications
- On the loop space of a geometric realization
- Joint torsion of Toeplitz operators with \(H^{\infty}\) symbols
- Remarks on quantum vortex theory on Riemann surfaces. -- Appendix A. An application: Vortices on an elliptic curve
- The geometry of degree-four characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces. I
- Four-dimensional Wess--Zumino--Witten actions
- Abelian duality and Abelian Wilson loops
- Bloch theory and quantization of magnetic systems
- Borsuk-Ulam theorem for the loop space of a sphere
- From observables and states to Hilbert space and back: a 2-categorical adjunction
- Differential cocycles and Dixmier-Douady bundles
- Localization for Chern-Simons on circle bundles via loop groups
- Primary operations in differential cohomology
- Lie n-algebras of BPS charges
- A Hilbert bundle description of differential \(K\)-theory
- Non-geometric Kaluza-Klein monopoles and magnetic duals of M-theory R-flux backgrounds
- Arithmetic topology in Ihara theory. II: Milnor invariants, dilogarithmic Heisenberg coverings and triple power residue symbols
- A regulator for smooth manifolds and an index theorem
- Twisted smooth Deligne cohomology
- Transgression to loop spaces and its inverse. III: Gerbes and thin fusion bundles
- Basic equivariant gerbes on non-simply connected compact simple Lie groups
- Note on non-abelian two-form gauge fields
- Relative topological integrals and relative Cheeger-Simons differential characters
- Holonomy and parallel transport for abelian gerbes
- Gerbes and duality
- Configuration spaces and Vassiliev classes in any dimension
- Central extensions of infinite-dimensional Lie groups
- A functorial approach to differential characters
- TQFT's and gerbes
- Gerbes and homotopy quantum field theories
- \(T\)-duality: topology change from \(H\)-flux
- The trilogy of the momentum map
- The geometry of two-dimensional symbols
- The geometry of degree-4 characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces. II
- Graph invariants of Vassiliev type and application to 4D quantum gravity
- Cohomology with coefficients in stacks of abelian 2-groups
- Cyclic cocycles on twisted convolution algebras
- The JLO character for the noncommutative space of connections of Aastrup-Grimstrup-Nest
- Noncommutative gerbes and deformation quantization
- Vortex filament in a three-manifold and the Duistermaat-Heckman formula.
- T-duality in an H-flux: exchange of momentum and winding
- A coboundary morphism for the Grothendieck spectral sequence
- Exotic twisted equivariant cohomology of loop spaces, twisted Bismut-Chern character and T-duality
- T-duality and the exotic chiral de Rham complex
- Uniqueness of differential characters and differential \(K\)-theory via homological algebra
- The Fermi gerbe of Weyl semimetals
- Derivation of the HOMFLYPT knot polynomial via helicity and geometric quantization
- Double field theory and geometric quantisation
- On the history of Lie brackets, crossed modules, and Lie-Rinehart algebras
- Quantum symmetries in orbifolds and decomposition
- Fusion of implementers for spinors on the circle
- Multiplicative vector fields on bundle gerbes
- The étale fundamental groupoid as a 2-terminal costack
- Generalized Kähler geometry in Kazama-Suzuki coset models
- Contact metric three manifolds and Lorentzian geometry with torsion in six-dimensional supergravity
- Exotic twisted equivariant K-theory
- On two notions of a gerbe over a stack
- Spaces of knots in the solid torus, knots in the thickened torus, and links in the 3-sphere
- Hamiltonian monodromy via geometric quantization and theta functions
- The symplectic structure of curves in three dimensional spaces of constant curvature and the equations of mathematical physics
- Equivariant holonomy of U(1)-bundles
- Abelian duality for generalized Maxwell theories
- Transgressive loop group extensions
- Higher geometry for non-geometric T-duals
- Eigenvalue crossings in Floquet topological systems
- An algebraic description of screw dislocations in SC and BCC crystal lattices
- Chern characters, equivariant traces and derived algebraic geometry
- Higher abelian gauge theory associated to gerbes on noncommutative deformed M5-branes and S-duality
- Trivializations of differential cocycles
- Higher dimensional knot spaces for manifolds with vector cross products
- Twistor spaces and spinors over loop spaces
- Gerbes, simplicial forms and invariants for families of foliated bundles
- An introduction to gerbes on orbifolds
- Dirac geometry of the holonomy fibration
- Differential topology of semimetals
- Square root of gerbe holonomy and invariants of time-reversal-symmetric topological insulators
- Path-integral invariants in abelian Chern-Simons theory
- Unoriented WZW models and holonomy of bundle gerbes
- String bracket and flat connections
- Sheaf theory for stacks in manifolds and twisted cohomology for \(S^1\)-gerbes
- A gerbe for the elliptic gamma function
- 2-gerbes bound by complexes of gr-stacks, and cohomology
- Holonomy for gerbes over orbifolds
- Central extensions of gauge transformation groups of higher Abelian gerbes
- Relative gerbes
- On smooth Chas-Sullivan loop product in Quillen's geometric complex cobordism of Hilbert manifolds
- Twisted chiral de Rham complex, generalized geometry, and T-duality
- WZW orientifolds and finite group cohomology
- Nonabelian bundle gerbes, their differential geometry and gauge theory
- Abelian and non-abelian branes in WZW models and gerbes
- On the de Rham cohomology of differential and algebraic stacks
- Differential geometry of gerbes
- Differential cohomology theories as sheaves of spectra
- C-spaces, generalized geometry and double field theory
- Deformation quantization of gerbes
- `Third' quantization of vacuum Einstein gravity and free Yang-Mills theories
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