Categorified symplectic geometry and the classical string

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0951-9zbMATH Open1192.81208arXiv0808.0246OpenAlexW3103320632WikidataQ62443464 ScholiaQ62443464MaRDI QIDQ982428FDOQ982428

Authors: John Baez, Alexander E. Hoffnung, Christopher L. Rogers 

Publication date: 6 July 2010

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

Abstract: A Lie 2-algebra is a "categorified" version of a Lie algebra: that is, a category equipped with structures analogous those of a Lie algebra, for which the usual laws hold up to isomorphism. In the classical mechanics of point particles, the phase space is often a symplectic manifold, and the Poisson bracket of functions on this space gives a Lie algebra of observables. Multisymplectic geometry describes an n-dimensional field theory using a phase space that is an "n-plectic manifold": a finite-dimensional manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate (n+1)-form. Here we consider the case n = 2. For any 2-plectic manifold, we construct a Lie 2-algebra of observables. We then explain how this Lie 2-algebra can be used to describe the dynamics of a classical bosonic string. Just as the presence of an electromagnetic field affects the symplectic structure for a charged point particle, the presence of a B field affects the 2-plectic structure for the string.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0246

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zbMATH Keywords

2-plectic manifold2-plectic structuredynamics of classical bosonic stringLie 2-algebra of observables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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