Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids in physics and noncommutative geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.04.005MaRDI QIDQ2575589zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 5 December 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0506024

noncommutative geometry quantization Lie algebroids Lie groupoids Poisson geometry

Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Geometric quantization (53D50) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: The aim of this review paper is to explain the relevance of Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids to both physicists and noncommutative geometers. Groupoids generalize groups, spaces, group actions, and equivalence relations. This last aspect dominates in noncommutative geometry, where groupoids provide the basic tool to desingularize pathological quotient spaces. In physics, however, the main role of groupoids is to provide a unified description of internal and external symmetries. What is shared by noncommutative geometry and physics is the importance of Connes's idea of associating a C*-algebra C*(G) to a Lie groupoid G: in noncommutative geometry C*(G) replaces a given singular quotient space by an appropriate noncommutative space, whereas in physics it gives the algebra of observables of a quantum system whose symmetries are encoded by G. Moreover, Connes's map G -> C*(G) has a classical analogue G -> A*(G) in symplectic geometry due to Weinstein, which defines the Poisson manifold of the corresponding classical system as the dual of the so-called Lie algebroid A(G) of the Lie groupoid G, an object generalizing both Lie algebras and tangent bundles. This will also lead into symplectic groupoids and the conjectural functoriality of quantization.

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