Graded geometry in gauge theories and beyond

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.07.001zbMATH Open1304.58004OpenAlexW1981652834MaRDI QIDQ478640FDOQ478640

Authors Vladimir Salnikov

Publication date 3 December 2014

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4486

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyCourant algebroidsgauging\(Q\)-manifoldstwisted Poisson sigma model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

Abstract: We study some graded geometric constructions appearing naturally in the context of gauge theories. Inspired by a known relation of gauging with equivariant cohomology we generalize the latter notion to the case of arbitrary Q-manifolds introducing thus the concept of equivariant Q-cohomology. Using this concept we describe a procedure for analysis of gauge symmetries of given functionals as well as for constructing functionals (sigma models) invariant under an action of some gauge group. As the main example of application of these constructions we consider the twisted Poisson sigma model. We obtain it by a gauging-type procedure of the action of an essentially infinite dimensional group and describe its symmetries in terms of classical differential geometry. We comment on other possible applications of the described concept including the analysis of supersymmetric gauge theories and higher structures.

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