Maps from a surface into a compact Lie group and curvature
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Maps from a surface into a compact Lie group and curvature
zbMATH Open document ID: 1417.22013
author: Doug Pickrell
author: Andrés Larraín-Hubach
published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02012
review text: Let $M$ be a Riemann surface and let $K$ be a compact Lie group. Let $G$ be a group of maps from $M$ to $K$ endowed with a suitably chosen left invariant Riemannian metric. For $s>\frac12\dim\{M\}=1$, one could consider the space of continuous maps which have $s$ $L^2$ derivatives using the Sobolov norm; this is a Hilbert Lie group. For the critical exponent $s=\frac12\dim\{M\}=1$, the elements are no longer necessarily continuous and one obtains a topological group but not necessarily a Lie group. The author considers the curvature of this situation motivated by quantum field Theory. If $s>\frac12\dim\{M\}=1$, the authors show that the curvature operator is a pseudo-differential operator of order at most $-2$. To define the Ricci curvature, one replaces the ordinary trace by the Wodzicki residue. Section 1 of the paper provides an introduction and puts matters in context. Section 2 recalls some of the theory of general Lie groups. Section 3 deals with Sobolev Lie groups. The order of the curvature operator is studied and the Ricci curvature is examined. Section 4 deals with the Wodzicki residue regularization of the Ricci curvature.
reviewed by: Peter B. Gilkey
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E70
zbMATH DE Number: 7075243
zbMATH Keywords: infinite dimensional Lie groups
zbMATH Keywords: pseudo differential operators
zbMATH Keywords: Wodzicki residue
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W3104929562
Wikidata QID: Q115381866
arXiv ID: 1710.02012
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DOI: 10.1007/S11005-018-01152-W
description: scientific article