Multi-oriented props and homotopy algebras with branes

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DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01248-XzbMATH Open1490.17022arXiv1712.09268OpenAlexW3012354980MaRDI QIDQ2190789FDOQ2190789


Authors: Sergei Merkulov Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 22 June 2020

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

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).


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




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