Sheaf theory for stacks in manifolds and twisted cohomology for S^1-gerbes

DOI10.2140/AGT.2007.7.1007MaRDI QIDQ2464779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich Bunke, Thomas Schick, Markus Spitzweck

Publication date 17 December 2007

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603698

zbMATH Keywords

sheaf theorystacks twisted cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20) de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40) Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15)

Abstract: This is the first of a series of papers on sheaf theory on smooth and topological stacks and its applications. The main result of the present paper is the characterization of the twisted (by a closed integral three-form) de Rham complex on a manifold. As an object in the derived category it will be related with the push-forward of the constant sheaf from a S^1-gerbe with Dixmier-Douady class represented by the three-form. In order to formulate and prove this result we develop in detail the foundations of sheaf theory for smooth stacks.

Review text

The main goal of this paper is to give a functorial definition of twisted de Rham cohomology. Twisted cohomology is the target of the Chern character from twisted \(K\)-theory, but whereas twisted K-theory is fully functorial, the usual definition of twisted cohomology is not. For this purpose, the authors develop a sheaf theory on smooth stacks. To a principal bundle they associate a stack, and their proposed definition of twisted cohomology is as the cohomology of this stack. They then show that their definition is non-canonically isomorphic to the usual twisted cohomology. The technical core is developing a theory for smooth stacks, and in particular associating an adjoint pair \((f^*,f_*)\) of functors between presheaf categories to a morphism of smooth stacks \(f\colon G\to X\). When \(X\) is a manifold, they prove that the calculation of the right derived functor \(Rf_*\) (appearing in their definition of twisted cohomology) can be reduced to ordinary sheaf theory on manifolds. This is then applied to the case where \(G\to X\) is a gerbe with band \(U(1)\) with a connection. The comparison between the sheaf theoretic definition of the cohomology of \(G\) and the twisted de Rham cohomology depends on the choice of the connection.

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