Twistor spaces and spinors over loop spaces

DOI10.1007/S00208-007-0085-3MaRDI QIDQ2384728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mauro Spera, Tilmann Wurzbacher

Publication date 10 October 2007

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-007-0085-3

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Geometric quantization (53D50) Loop spaces (55P35) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Review text

Witten's work on the genus of the Dirac-Ramond operator on loop spaces had a deep impact in differential geometry and homotopy theory. Ever since the search for a rigourous theory of Dirac operators and their index theory for loop spaces has been of first importance, this paper is a step towards this direction. The authors choose to extend the twistorial reinterpretation of the ordinary finite dimensional Dirac operator to loop spaces of Riemannian spin manifolds, this approach goes far beyond the flat case and is very promising. They introduce two twistor spaces and prove their equivalence in the Kählerian case. The first one comes from the looping of the frame bundle and the second from the Atiyah operator family for loop spaces induced by the Levi-Civita connection. Theis construction relies on the Fourier mode decomposition of the Hilbert space \(L^2(S^1,\mathbb C^d)\). Twistor spaces, being closely related to spin structures in the finite dimensional case, are closely related to the Dixmier-Douay class in the case of loop spaces which is an obstruction to the existence of a string structure. The authors study this class in their framework.

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