The 2-Hilbert space of a prequantum bundle gerbe

DOI10.1142/S0129055X18500010zbMATH Open1478.81021arXiv1608.08455OpenAlexW2964087260MaRDI QIDQ4603528FDOQ4603528

Authors: Severin Bunk, Christian Sämann, Richard J. Szabo 

Publication date: 15 February 2018

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a prequantum 2-Hilbert space for any line bundle gerbe whose Dixmier-Douady class is torsion. Analogously to usual prequantisation, this 2-Hilbert space has the category of sections of the line bundle gerbe as its underlying 2-vector space. These sections are obtained as certain morphism categories in Waldorf's version of the 2-category of line bundle gerbes. We show that these morphism categories carry a monoidal structure under which they are semisimple and abelian. We introduce a dual functor on the sections, which yields a closed structure on the morphisms between bundle gerbes and turns the category of sections into a 2-Hilbert space. We discuss how these 2-Hilbert spaces fit various expectations from higher prequantisation. We then extend the transgression functor to the full 2-category of bundle gerbes and demonstrate its compatibility with the additional structures introduced. We discuss various aspects of Kostant-Souriau prequantisation in this setting, including its dimensional reduction to ordinary prequantisation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08455

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zbMATH Keywords

transgressionbundle gerbes2-Hilbert spaceshigher geometric quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Categories in geometry and topology (18F99) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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