Extensions of lattice groups, gerbes and chiral fermions on a torus

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2017.08.003MaRDI QIDQ2407370zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date 29 September 2017

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01643, http://hdl.handle.net/10138/304624

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryextensions of current algebrasgerbestopological insulators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99)

Abstract: Motivated by the topological classification of hamiltonians in condensed matter physics (topological insulators) we study the relations between chiral Dirac operators coupled to an abelian vector potential on a torus in 3 and 1 space dimensions. We find that a large class of these hamiltonians in three dimensions is equivalent, in K theory, to a family of hamiltonians in just one space dimension but with a different abelian gauge group. The moduli space of U(1) gauge connections over a torus with a fixed Chern class is again a torus up to a homotopy. Gerbes over a n-torus can be realized in terms of extensions of the lattice group acting in a real vector space. The extension comes from the action of the lattice group (thought of as "large" gauge transformations, homomorphisms from the torus to U(1)) in the Fock space of chiral fermions. Interestingly, the K theoretic classication of Dirac operators coupled to vector potentials in this setting in 3 dimensions can be related to families of Dirac operators on a circle with gauge group the 3-torus.

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