Higher U(1)-gerbe connections in geometric prequantization

DOI10.1142/S0129055X16500124zbMATH Open1366.53068arXiv1304.0236MaRDI QIDQ2819166FDOQ2819166

Domenico Fiorenza, Urs Schreiber, Christopher L. Rogers

Publication date: 28 September 2016

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

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.

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)

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