The basic gerbe over a compact simple Lie group

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Authors Eckhard Meinrenken

Publication date 25 October 2004

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209194

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturegerbesimple Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a compact, simply connected simple Lie group. We give a construction of an equivariant gerbe with connection on $G$, with equivariant 3-curvature representing a generator of $$. Technical tools developed in this context include a gluing construction for gerbes and a theory of equivariant bundle gerbes.

Review text

In [Loop spaces, characteristic classes and geometric quantization (Birkhäuser, Boston) (1993; Zbl 0823.55002)], \textit{J.-L.~Brylinski} gave a general construction of a gerbe with connection, for any integral closed 3-form on any 2-connected manifold. In the case of a compact, simply connected simple Lie group \(G\) one looks for an explicit, finite dimensional description of an equivariant gerbe over \(G\), whose equivariant 3-curvature represents the class of the generator of \(H_G^3(G;{\mathbb Z})\). In [Rev. Math. Phys. 14, 1281--1334 (2002; Zbl 1033.81067)] this problem was solved by \textit{K.~Gawȩdzki} and \textit{N.~Reis} for \(\text{ SU}(n)\) and non-simply connected groups covered by \(\text{ SU}(n)\), in terms of transition line bundles due to D.~Chatterjee and N.~Hitchin. In the paper under review, the author solves the problem for any compact, simply connected simple Lie group. He uses the bundle gerbes introduced by \textit{M. K. Murray} [J. Lond. Math. Soc. 54, 403--416 (1996; Zbl 0867.55019)] and develops a gluing construction for equivariant bundles gerbes. As mentioned in the introduction, another construction has been given by \textit{K.~Behrend} and \textit{P.~Xu} and \textit{B.~Zhang} in [C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 336, 251--256 (2003; Zbl 1068.58010)]. Quote also an extension of the Meinrenken's construction to the non simply connected case by \textit{K.~Gawȩdzki} and \textit{N.~Reis} in [``Basic gerbe over non-simply connected compact groups, J. Geom. Phys. 50, 28--55 (2004)].

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