L_-algebra models and higher Chern-Simons theories

DOI10.1142/S0129055X16500215zbMATH Open1353.81098arXiv1511.08201MaRDI QIDQ2829631FDOQ2829631

Authors: Patricia Ritter, Christian Sämann 

Publication date: 8 November 2016

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

Abstract: We continue our study of zero-dimensional field theories in which the fields take values in a strong homotopy Lie algebra. In a first part, we review in detail how higher Chern-Simons theories arise in the AKSZ-formalism. These theories form a universal starting point for the construction of $L_{i}nfty$-algebra models. We then show how to describe superconformal field theories and how to perform dimensional reductions in this context. In a second part, we demonstrate that Nambu-Poisson and multisymplectic manifolds are closely related via their Heisenberg algebras. As a byproduct of our discussion, we find central Lie $p$-algebra extensions of $mathfrakso(p+2)$. Finally, we study a number of $L_{i}nfty$-algebra models which are physically interesting and which exhibit quantized multisymplectic manifolds as vacuum solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08201

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetrymatrix modelmultisymplectic geometryhigher gauge theoryNQ-manifoldsAKSZ formlismhigher Chern-Simons theoryhigher Lie algebvraIKKT model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Feynman diagrams (81T18) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Geometric quantization (53D50) Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83E99)

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