Equivariant prequantization bundles on the space of connections and characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/S10231-018-0747-7MaRDI QIDQ1756465zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Ferreiro Pérez

Publication date 14 January 2019

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05832

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons line bundledifferential charactersequivariant characteristic classesequivariant prequantization bundlespace of connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

Abstract: We show how characteristic classes determine equivariant prequantization bundles over the space of connections on a principal bundle. These bundles are shown to generalize the Chern-Simons line bundles to arbitrary dimensions. Our result applies to arbitrary bundles, and it is studied the action of both the gauge group and the automorphisms group. The action of the elements in the connected component of the identity of the group generalizes known results in the literature. The action of the elements not connected with the identity is shown to be determined by a characteristic class by using differential characters and equivariant cohomology. We extend our results to the space of Riemannian metrics and the actions of diffeomorphisms. In dimension 2, a ${Gamma}_M$-equivariant prequantization bundle of the Weil-Petersson symplectic form on the Teichm"uller space is obtained, where ${Gamma}_M$ is the mapping class group of the surface M.

Review text

The classical Atiyah-Bott construction of prequantization bundles for the moduli space of flat connections of a closed oriented surface is a precursor for 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theory. The paper under review generalises both these constructions to arbitrary principal bundles. An application is given to the space of Riemannian metrics, acted upon by orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms.

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