The Clifford algebra bundle on loop space

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2024.020MaRDI QIDQ6196826zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Ludewig

Publication date 15 March 2024

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00798

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebraloop spacesstring geometryvon Neumann algebra bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Automorphisms of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L40) Linear operators in (C^*)- or von Neumann algebras (47C15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15)

Abstract: We construct a Clifford algebra bundle formed from the tangent bundle of the smooth loop space of a Riemannian manifold, which is a bundle of super von Neumann algebras on the loop space. We show that this bundle is in general non-trivial, more precisely that its triviality is obstructed by the transgressions of the second Stiefel-Whitney class and the first (fractional) Pontrjagin class of the manifold.

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