Multi-oriented props and homotopy algebras with branes

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01248-XMaRDI QIDQ2190789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergei Merkulov

Publication date 22 June 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09268

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05) Higher categories and homotopical algebra (18N99)

Abstract: We introduce a new category of differential graded multi-oriented props whose representations (called homotopy algebras with branes) in a graded vector space require a choice of a collection of $k$ linear subspaces in that space, $k$ being the number of extra directions (if $k=0$ this structure recovers an ordinary prop); symplectic vector spaces equipped with $k$ Lagrangian subspaces play a distinguished role in this theory. Manin triples is a classical example of an algebraic structure (concretely, a Lie bialgebra structure) given in terms of a vector space and its subspace; in the context of this paper Manin triples are precisely symplectic Lagrangian representations of the {em 2-oriented} generalization of the classical operad of Lie algebras. In a sense, the theory of multi-oriented props provides us with a far reaching strong homotopy generalization of Manin triples type constructions. The homotopy theory of multi-oriented props can be quite non-trivial (and different from that of ordinary props). The famous Grothendieck-Teichm"uller group acts faithfully as homotopy non-trivial automorphisms on infinitely many multi-oriented props, a fact which motivated much the present work as it gives us a hint to a non-trivial deformation quantization theory in every geometric dimension $dgeq4$ generalizing to higher dimensions Drinfeld-Etingof-Kazhdan's quantizations of Lie bialgebras (the case $d=3$) and Kontsevich's quantizations of Poisson structures (the case $d=2$).

Recommendations

• Wheeled props in algebra, geometry and quantization
• Deformation theory of representations of prop(erad)s I
• Lectures on props, Poisson geometry and deformation quantization
• Deformation theory of representations of prop(erad)s. II
• Operads and motives in deformation quantization

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1757930 (Why is no real title available?)
• A Koszul duality for props
• Algebraic operads
• An explicit two step quantization of Poisson structures and Lie bialgebras
• Coalgebras and Bialgebras in Combinatorics
• Deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds
• Deformation theory of Lie bialgebra properads
• Deformation theory of representations of prop(erad)s. II
• Formality theorem for quantizations of Lie bialgebras
• Graph complexes with loops and wheels
• M. Kontsevich's graph complex and the Grothendieck-Teichmüller Lie algebra
• Multi-directed graph complexes and quasi-isomorphisms between them. I: Oriented graphs
• On some unsolved problems in quantum group theory
• Operads and PROPs
• PROPped-up graph cohomology
• Quantization of Lie bialgebras. I
• Six operations formalism for generalized operads
• The oriented graph complexes
• Wheeled PROPs, graph complexes and the master equation

Cited in

(5)

• Multi-directed graph complexes and quasi-isomorphisms between them. I: Oriented graphs
• A note on multi-oriented graph complexes and deformation quantization of Lie bialgebroids
• Koszul operads governing props and wheeled props
• Coproducts in brane topology
• M. Kontsevich's graph complexes and universal structures on graded symplectic manifolds

This page was built for publication: Multi-oriented props and homotopy algebras with branes

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2190789)