Equivariant prequantization bundles on the space of connections and characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/S10231-018-0747-7zbMATH Open1410.53028arXiv1703.05832OpenAlexW3098178474WikidataQ129947315 ScholiaQ129947315MaRDI QIDQ1756465FDOQ1756465

Authors: R. Ferreiro Pérez 

Publication date: 14 January 2019

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant characteristic classesdifferential charactersspace of connectionsChern-Simons line bundleequivariant prequantization bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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