Shifted Contact Structures on Differentiable Stacks

MaRDI QIDQ6442115zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Antonio Maglio, Alfonso Giuseppe Tortorella, Luca Vitagliano

Publication date 30 June 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets, simplicial objects (18N50) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

Abstract: We define $0$-shifted and $+1$-shifted contact structures on differentiable stacks, thus laying the foundations of shifted Contact Geometry. As a side result we show that the kernel of a multiplicative $1$-form on a Lie groupoid (might not exist as a vector bundle in the category of Lie groupoids but it) always exists as a vector bundle in the category of differentiable stacks, and it is naturally equipped with a stacky version of the curvature of a distribution. Contact structures on orbifolds provide examples of $0$-shifted contact structures, while prequantum bundles over $+1$-shifted symplectic groupoids provide examples of $+1$-shifted contact structures. Our shifted contact structures are related to shifted symplectic structures via a Symplectic-to-Contact Dictionary.

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