Non-integral central extensions of loop groups

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Authors Christoph Wockel

Publication date 3 January 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1937

zbMATH Keywords

central extensionLie groupoidLoop groupprincipal 2-bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: It is well-known that the central extensions of the loop group of a compact, simple and 1-connected Lie group are parametrised by their level $kinZ$. This article concerns the question how much can be said for arbitrary $kinR$ and we show that for each $k$ there exists a Lie groupoid which has the level $k$ central extension as its quotient if $kinZ$. By considering categorified principal bundles we show, moreover, that the corresponding Lie groupoid has the expected bundle structure.

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