Dirac structures and Dixmier-Douady bundles

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNR002zbMATH Open1244.46038arXiv0907.1257OpenAlexW2963995931MaRDI QIDQ3225199FDOQ3225199

Eckhard Meinrenken, Anton Alekseev

Publication date: 15 March 2012

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Dirac structure on a vector bundle V is a maximal isotropic subbundle E of the direct sum of V with its dual. We show how to associate to any Dirac structure a Dixmier-Douady bundle A, that is, a Z/2Z-graded bundle of C*-algebras with typical fiber the compact operators on a Hilbert space. The construction has good functorial properties, relative to Morita morphisms of Dixmier-Douady bundles. As applications, we show that the `spin' Dixmier-Douady bundle over a compact, connected Lie group (as constructed by Atiyah-Segal) is multiplicative, and we obtain a canonical `twisted Spin-c-structure' on spaces with group valued moment maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1257

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zbMATH Keywords

Morita morphismsDirac structureDixmier-Douady bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20) Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46L99)

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