Homotopy moment maps

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.08.012zbMATH Open1353.53083OpenAlexW2962983897MaRDI QIDQ323709FDOQ323709

Authors: Martin Callies, Yaël Frégier, Christopher L. Rogers, M. Zambon 

Publication date: 10 October 2016

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Associated to any manifold equipped with a closed form of degree >1 is an `L-infinity algebra of observables' which acts as a higher/homotopy analog of the Poisson algebra of functions on a symplectic manifold. In order to study Lie group actions on these manifolds, we introduce a theory of homotopy moment maps. Such a map is a L-infinity morphism from the Lie algebra of the group into the observables which lifts the infinitesimal action. We establish the relationship between homotopy moment maps and equivariant de Rham cohomology, and analyze the obstruction theory for the existence of such maps. This allows us to easily and explicitly construct a large number of examples. These include results concerning group actions on loop spaces and moduli spaces of flat connections. Relationships are also established with previous work by others in classical field theory, algebroid theory, and dg geometry. Furthermore, we use our theory to geometrically construct various L-infinity algebras as higher central extensions of Lie algebras, in analogy with Kostant's quantization theory. In particular, the so-called `string Lie 2-algebra' arises this way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2051

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zbMATH Keywords

moment mapequivariant cohomologymultisymplectic geometrystrong homotopy Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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