Maps from a surface into a compact Lie group and curvature

DOI10.1007/S11005-018-01152-WMaRDI QIDQ2000942zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Doug Pickrell, Andrés Larraín-Hubach

Publication date 1 July 2019

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02012

zbMATH Keywords

Wodzicki residueinfinite dimensional Lie groupspseudo differential operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

Abstract: These are notes on seminal work of Freed, and subsequent developments, on the curvature properties of (Sobolev Lie) groups of maps from a Riemannian manifold into a compact Lie group. We are mainly interested in critical cases which are relevant to quantum field theory. For example Freed showed that, in a necessarily qualified sense, the quotient space $W^{1/2}(S^1,K)/K$ is a (positive constant) Einstein `manifold' with respect to the essentially unique PSU(1,1) invariant metric, where $W^s$ denotes maps of $L^2$ Sobolev order s. In a similarly qualified sense, and in addition making use of the Dixmier trace/Wodzicki residue, we show that for a Riemann surface Sigma, $W^1(Sigma,K)/K$ is a (positive constant) Einstein `manifold' with respect to the essentially unique conformally invariant metric. As in the one dimensional case, invariance implies Einstein, but the sign of the Ricci curvature has to be computed. Because of the qualifications involved in these statements, in practice it is necessary to consider curvature for $W^s(Sigma,K)$ for s above the critical exponent, and limits. The formula we obtain is surprisingly simple.

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