Gerbes over posets and twisted C^*-dynamical systems

DOI10.4171/JNCG/347MaRDI QIDQ2282976zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ezio Vasselli

Publication date 27 December 2019

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02110

zbMATH Keywords

duality theorygerbenon-abelian cohomologyposettwisted \(C^*\)-dynamical system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Monoidal categories and operads (18M99) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

Abstract: A base $Delta$ generating the topology of a space $M$ becomes a partially ordered set (poset), when ordered under inclusion of open subsets. Given a precosheaf over $Delta$ of fixed-point spaces (typically C*-algebras) under the action of a group $G$, in general one cannot find a precosheaf of $G$-spaces having it as fixed-point precosheaf. Rather one gets a gerbe over $Delta$, that is, a "twisted precosheaf" whose twisting is encoded by a cocycle with coefficients in a suitable 2-group. We give a notion of holonomy for a gerbe, in terms of a non-abelian cocycle over the fundamental group $p{i}_1(M)$. At the C*-algebraic level, holonomy leads to a general notion of twisted C*-dynamical system, based on a generic 2-group instead of the usual adjoint action on the underlying C*-algebra. As an application of these notions, we study presheaves of group duals (DR-presheaves) and prove that the dual object of a DR-presheaf is a group gerbe over $Delta$. It is also shown that any section of a DR-presheaf defines a twisted action of $p{i}_1(M)$ on a Cuntz algebra.

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Summary: A base \(\Delta\) generating the topology of a space \(M\) becomes a partially ordered set (poset), when ordered under inclusion of open subsets. Given a precosheaf over \(\Delta\) of fixed-point spaces (typically \(C^*\)-algebras) under the action of a group \(G\), in general one cannot find a precosheaf of \(G\)-spaces having it as fixed-point precosheaf. Rather one gets a gerbe over \(\Delta \), that is, a ``twisted precosheaf whose twisting is encoded by a cocycle with coefficients in a suitable 2-group. We give a notion of holonomy for a gerbe, in terms of a non-abelian cocycle over the fundamental group \(\pi_1(M)\). At the \(C^*\)-algebraic level, holonomy leads to a general notion of twisted \(C^*\)-dynamical system, based on a generic 2-group instead of the usual adjoint action on the underlying \(C^*\)-algebra. As an application of these notions, we study presheaves of group duals (DR-presheaves) and prove that the dual object of a DR-presheaf is a group gerbe over \(\Delta \). It is also shown that any section of a DR-presheaf defines a twisted action of \(\pi_1(M)\) on a Cuntz algebra.

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