First Class Constrained Systems and Twisting of Courant Algebroids by a Closed 4-Form

DOI10.1142/9789814277839_0008MaRDI QIDQ3567464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markus Hansen, Thomas Strobl

Publication date 17 June 2010

Published in Fundamental Interactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0711

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We show that in analogy to the introduction of Poisson structures twisted by a closed 3-form by Park and Klimcik-Strobl, the study of three dimensional sigma models with Wess-Zumino term leads in a likewise way to twisting of Courant algebroid structures by closed 4-forms H. The presentation is kept pedagogical and accessible to physicists as well as to mathematicians, explaining in detail in particular the interplay of field transformations in a sigma model with the type of geometrical structures induced on a target. In fact, as we also show, even if one does not know the mathematical concept of a Courant algebroid, the study of a rather general class of 3-dimensional sigma models leads one to that notion by itself. Courant algebroids became of relevance for mathematical physics lately from several perspectives - like for example by means of using generalized complex structures in String Theory. One may expect that their twisting by the curvature H of some 3-form Ramond-Ramond gauge field will become of relevance as well.

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