On the geometry of Dirac determinant bundles in two dimensions

DOI10.1007/BF01217816MaRDI QIDQ578702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date 1987

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01217816

zbMATH Keywords

affine Kac- Moody groupsgauge and diffeomorphism anomaliesgauge transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Review text

The gauge and diffeomorphism anomalies are used to define the determinant bundles for the left-handed Dirac operator on a two-dimensional Riemann surface. Three different moduli spaces are studied: (1) the space of vector potentials modulo gauge transformations; (2) the space of vector potentials modulo bundle automorphisms; and, (3) the space of Riemannian metrics modulo diffeomorphisms. Using the methods earlier developed for the studies of affine Kac-Moody groups, natural geometries are constructed for each of the three bundles.

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