The first Pontryagin class

DOI10.1112/S0010437X07002710MaRDI QIDQ5423681zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Bressler

Publication date 31 October 2007

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509563

zbMATH Keywords

Courant algebroidLie algebroidPontryagin classprincipal bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials and other special sheaves; D-modules; Bernstein-Sato ideals and polynomials (14F10) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

Abstract: We give a natural obstruction theoretic interpretation to the first Pontryagin class in terms of Courant algebroids. As an application we calculate the class of the stack of algebras of chiral differential operators. In particular, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the chiral de Rham complex.

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