Differentiable stacks and gerbes

DOI10.4310/JSG.2011.V9.N3.A2zbMATH Open1227.14007arXivmath/0605694MaRDI QIDQ720719FDOQ720719

Authors: Ping Xu, Kai Behrend 

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce differentiable stacks and explain the relationship with Lie groupoids. Then we study $S^1$-bundles and $S^1$-gerbes over differentiable stacks. In particular, we establish the relationship between $S^1$-gerbes and groupoid $S^1$-central extensions. We define connections and curvings for groupoid $S^1$-central extensions extending the corresponding notions of Brylinski, Hitchin and Murray for $S^1$-gerbes over manifolds. We develop a Chern-Weil theory of characteristic classes in this general setting by presenting a construction of Chern classes and Dixmier-Douady classes in terms of analogues of connections and curvatures. We also describe a prequantization result for both $S^1$-bundles and $S^1$-gerbes extending the well-known result of Weil and Kostant. In particular, we give an explicit construction of $S^1$-central extensions with prescribed curvature-like data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605694

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zbMATH Keywords

central extensiondifferentiable stackLie groupoidgerb

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20)

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