scholarly journals The Deformation Complex is a Homotopy Invariant of a Homotopy Algebra

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasily Dolgushev ◽  
Thomas Willwacher
Keyword(s):  
Homotopy Invariant ◽  
Homotopy Algebra ◽  
Deformation Complex

scholarly journals Smooth functorial field theories from B-fields and D-branes

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-153
Author(s):  
Severin Bunk ◽  
Konrad Waldorf
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Sigma Models ◽  
Lagrangian Approach ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Homotopy Invariant ◽  
Target Manifold ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Smooth Map

AbstractIn the Lagrangian approach to 2-dimensional sigma models, B-fields and D-branes contribute topological terms to the action of worldsheets of both open and closed strings. We show that these terms naturally fit into a 2-dimensional, smooth open-closed functorial field theory (FFT) in the sense of Atiyah, Segal, and Stolz–Teichner. We give a detailed construction of this smooth FFT, based on the definition of a suitable smooth bordism category. In this bordism category, all manifolds are equipped with a smooth map to a spacetime target manifold. Further, the object manifolds are allowed to have boundaries; these are the endpoints of open strings stretched between D-branes. The values of our FFT are obtained from the B-field and its D-branes via transgression. Our construction generalises work of Bunke–Turner–Willerton to include open strings. At the same time, it generalises work of Moore–Segal about open-closed TQFTs to include target spaces. We provide a number of further features of our FFT: we show that it depends functorially on the B-field and the D-branes, we show that it is thin homotopy invariant, and we show that it comes equipped with a positive reflection structure in the sense of Freed–Hopkins. Finally, we describe how our construction is related to the classification of open-closed TQFTs obtained by Lauda–Pfeiffer.

scholarly journals A motivic version of the theorem of Fontaine and Wintenberger

2018 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Vezzani
Keyword(s):  
Galois Groups ◽  
Rational Homotopy ◽  
Mixed Characteristic ◽  
Homotopy Invariant ◽  
Analytic Varieties

We establish a tilting equivalence for rational, homotopy-invariant cohomology theories defined over non-archimedean analytic varieties. More precisely, we prove an equivalence between the categories of motives of rigid analytic varieties over a perfectoid field $K$ of mixed characteristic and over the associated (tilted) perfectoid field $K^{\flat }$ of equal characteristic. This can be considered as a motivic generalization of a theorem of Fontaine and Wintenberger, claiming that the Galois groups of $K$ and $K^{\flat }$ are isomorphic.

Spectra of derived module homomorphisms

1987 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Sequence ◽  
Homotopy Theory ◽  
Stable Homotopy ◽  
Homotopy Groups ◽  
Stable Homotopy Theory ◽  
Ring Spectrum ◽  
Homotopy Invariant ◽  
New Construction

We introduce a new construction in stable homotopy theory. If F and G are module spectra over a ring spectrum E, there is no well-known spectrum of E-module homomorphisms from F to G. Such a construction would not be homotopy invariant, and therefore would not serve much purpose. We show that, provided the rings and modules have A∞ structures, there is a spectrum RHomE(F, G) of derived module homomorphisms which has very pleasant properties. It is homotopy invariant, exact in each variable, and its homotopy groups form the abutment of a hypercohomology-type spectral sequence.

scholarly journals The ambient obstruction tensor and the conformal deformation complex

2006 ◽  
Vol 226 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Gover ◽  
Lawrence Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Conformal Deformation ◽  
Deformation Complex

scholarly journals The Weil Algebra of a Double Lie Algebroid

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckhard Meinrenken ◽  
Jeffrey Pike
Keyword(s):  
Vector Fields ◽  
Vector Bundles ◽  
Lie Algebroid ◽  
Weil Algebra ◽  
Algebra Of Functions ◽  
Double Vector Bundles ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Deformation Complex ◽  
Double Vector Bundle ◽  
Gerstenhaber Bracket

Abstract Given a double vector bundle $D\to M$, we define a bigraded bundle of algebras $W(D)\to M$ called the “Weil algebra bundle”. The space ${\mathcal{W}}(D)$ of sections of this algebra bundle ”realizes” the algebra of functions on the supermanifold $D[1,1]$. We describe in detail the relations between the Weil algebra bundles of $D$ and those of the double vector bundles $D^{\prime},\ D^{\prime\prime}$ obtained from $D$ by duality operations. We show that ${\mathcal{V}\mathcal{B}}$-algebroid structures on $D$ are equivalent to horizontal or vertical differentials on two of the Weil algebras and a Gerstenhaber bracket on the 3rd. Furthermore, Mackenzie’s definition of a double Lie algebroid is equivalent to compatibilities between two such structures on any one of the three Weil algebras. In particular, we obtain a ”classical” version of Voronov’s result characterizing double Lie algebroid structures. In the case that $D=TA$ is the tangent prolongation of a Lie algebroid, we find that ${\mathcal{W}}(D)$ is the Weil algebra of the Lie algebroid, as defined by Mehta and Abad–Crainic. We show that the deformation complex of Lie algebroids, the theory of IM forms and IM multi-vector fields, and 2-term representations up to homotopy all have natural interpretations in terms of our Weil algebras.

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