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geometric quantization higher geometric quantization
geometry of physics: Lagrangians and Action functionals + Geometric Quantization
prequantum circle n-bundle = extended Lagrangian
prequantum 1-bundle = prequantum circle bundle, regularcontact manifold,prequantum line bundle = lift of symplectic form to differential cohomology
The notion of Heisenberg Lie -algebra is the generalization to n-plectic geometry of the notion of Heisenberg Lie algebra in symplectic geometry.
The Heisenberg Lie -algebra integrates to the Heisenberg n-group.
We discuss a generalization of the notion of Heisenberg Lie algebra from ordinary symplectic geometry to a notion of Heisenberg Lie n-algebra in higher geometric quantization of n-plectic geometry.
The following definition is naturally motivated from the fact that:
The ordinary Heisenberg Lie algebra is the sub-Lie algebra of the Poisson bracket Lie algebra, the one underlying the corresponding Poisson algebra (see below) on the constant and linear functions.
The generalization of Poisson brackets to Poisson Lie n-algebras in n-plectic geometry for all is established (see there).
In view of this, the following definition takes the Heisenberg Lie -algebra to be the sub-Lie -algebra of the Poisson Lie n-algebra on the linear and constant differential forms.
First we need the following definition, which is elementary, but nevertheless worth making explicit once.
Let , let be an n-plectic vector space.
The corresponding -plectic manifold is the n-plectic manifold , with now the canonical smooth manifold structure on the given vector space, and with
the differential form obtained by left (right) translating along .
Explicitly, for all vector fields and all points we set
Here on the right – and in all of the following – we are using that every tangent space of is naturally identified with itself
Let , let be an n-plectic vector space and let be the corresponding n-plectic manifold.
The Heisenberg Lie -algebra is the sub-Lie n-algebra of the Poisson Lie n-algebra on those differential forms which are either linear or constant (with respect to left/right translation on ).
All one has to observe is:
This is indeed a sub-Lie -algebra.
We need to check that the linear and constant forms are closed under the L-infinity algebra brackets of .
The only non-trivial such brackets are the unary one, and the ones on elements all of degree 0.
The unary bracket is given by the de Rham differential. Since this sends a linear form to a constant form and a constant form to 0, our sub-complex is closed under this.
Similarly, the brackets on elements all in degree 0 is given by contraction of with the Hamiltonian vector fields of linear or constant forms. Since is a constant form, and since the de Rham differential of a linear or constant form is constant (or even 0), these Hamiltonian vector fields are necessarily constant. Hence their contraction with gives a constant form.
slice-automorphism ∞-groups in higher prequantum geometry
higher and integrated Kostant-Souriau extensions:
(∞-group extension of ∞-group of bisections of higher Atiyah groupoid for -principal ∞-connection)
(extension are listed for sufficiently connected )
The topological part of the Heisenberg Lie 2-algebra of the string sigma-model called the WZW model has been discussed (not under this name, though) in
and shown to be the string Lie 2-algebra.
General discussion in the broader context of higher differential geometry and higher prequantum geometry is in
Domenico Fiorenza, Chris Rogers, Urs Schreiber, Higher geometric prequantum theory (arXiv:1304.0236)
Domenico Fiorenza, Chris Rogers, Urs Schreiber, L-∞ algebras of local observables from higher prequantum bundles, Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Volume 16 (2014) Number 2, p. 107 – 142 (arXiv:1304.6292)
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