Higher U(1)-gerbe connections in geometric prequantization

DOI10.1142/S0129055X16500124MaRDI QIDQ2819166zbMATHFDO

Authors Domenico Fiorenza, Christopher L. Rogers, Urs Schreiber

Publication date 28 September 2016

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0236

zbMATH Keywords

geometric quantizationhigher differential geometryhigher gerbe with connectionhigher Hamiltonian symplectomorphismshigher quantomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Geometric quantization (53D50)

Abstract: We promote geometric prequantization to higher geometry (higher stacks), where a prequantization is given by a higher principal connection (a higher gerbe with connection). We show fairly generally how there is canonically a tower of higher gauge groupoids and Courant groupoids assigned to a higher prequantization, and establish the corresponding Atiyah sequence as an integrated Kostant-Souriau infinity-group extension of higher Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms by higher quantomorphisms. We also exhibit the infinity-group cocycle which classifies this extension and discuss how its restrictions along Hamiltonian infinity-actions yield higher Heisenberg cocycles. In the special case of higher differential geometry over smooth manifolds we find the L-infinity-algebra extension of Hamiltonian vector fields -- which is the higher Poisson bracket of local observables -- and show that it is equivalent to the construction proposed by the second author in n-plectic geometry. Finally we indicate a list of examples of applications of higher prequantization in the extended geometric quantization of local quantum field theories and specifically in string geometry.

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