Current algebras and QP-manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0219887813500242zbMATH Open1272.53074arXiv1108.0473OpenAlexW2962685890MaRDI QIDQ2845341FDOQ2845341

Authors: Noriaki Ikeda, Kozo Koizumi 

Publication date: 22 August 2013

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Generalized current algebras introduced by Alekseev and Strobl in two dimensions are reconstructed by a graded manifold and a graded Poisson brackets. We generalize their current algebras to higher dimensions. QP manifolds provide the unified structures of current algebras in any dimension. Current algebras give rise to structures of Leibniz/Loday algebroids, which are characterized by QP structures. Especially, in three dimensions, a current algebra has a structure of a Lie algebroid up to homotopy introduced by Uchino and one of the authors which has a bracket of a generalization of the Courant-Dorfman bracket. Anomaly cancellation conditions are reinterpreted as generalizations of the Dirac structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0473

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zbMATH Keywords

current algebrasDirac structuredifferential graded manifoldsQP-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

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