Killing sections and sigma models with Lie algebroid targets

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(16)30046-5MaRDI QIDQ340499zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew James Bruce

Publication date 14 November 2016

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07738

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapssigma modelsKilling symmetriesRiemannian Lie algebroids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: We define and examine the notion of a Killing section of a Riemannian Lie algebroid as a natural generalisation of a Killing vector field. We show that the various expression for a vector field to be Killing naturally generalise to the setting of Lie algebroids. As an application we examine the internal symmetries of a class of sigma models for which the target space is a Riemannian Lie algebroid. Critical points of these sigma models are interpreted as generalised harmonic maps.

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