The geometry and DSZ quantization of four-dimensional supergravity

DOI10.1007/S11005-022-01626-YarXiv2101.07778MaRDI QIDQ6358607FDOQ6358607

Authors: Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu, C. S. Shahbazi

Publication date: 19 January 2021

Abstract: We implement the Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger integrality condition on four-dimensional classical ungauged supergravity and use it to obtain its duality-covariant, gauge-theoretic, differential-geometric model on an oriented four-manifold

M

of arbitrary topology. Classical bosonic supergravity is completely determined by a submersion

p i

over

M

equipped with a complete Ehresmann connection, a vertical euclidean metric, and a vertically-polarized flat symplectic vector bundle

X i

. Building on these structures, we implement the Dirac-Schwinger-Zwanziger integrality condition through the choice of an element in the degree-two sheaf cohomology group with coefficients in a locally constant sheaf

m a t h c a l L s u b s e t X i

valued in the groupoid of integral symplectic spaces. We show that this data determines a Siegel principal bundle

P_{m a t h f r a k t}

of fixed type

m a t h f r a k t i n m a t h b b Z^{n_{v}}

whose connections provide the global geometric description of the local electromagnetic gauge potentials of the theory. Furthermore, we prove that the Maxwell gauge equations of the theory reduce to the polarized self-duality condition determined by

X i

on the connections of

P_{m a t h f r a k t}

. In addition, we investigate the continuous and discrete U-duality groups of the theory, characterizing them through short exact sequences and realizing the latter through the gauge group of

P_{m a t h f r a k t}

acting on its adjoint bundle. This elucidates the geometric origin of U-duality, which we explore in several examples, illustrating its dependence on the topology of the fiber bundles

p i

and

P_{m a t h f r a k t}

as well as on the isomorphism type of

m a t h c a l L

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Supergravity (83E50) Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20) Geometric quantization (53D50) Symplectic structures in 4 dimensions (57K43)

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