Batalin-Vilkovisky formality for Chern-Simons theory

We prove that the differential graded Lie algebra of functionals associated to the Chern-Simons theory of a semisimple Lie algebra is homotopy abelian. For a general field theory, we show that the variational complex in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is a differential graded Lie algebra.

Duality Hierarchies and Differential Graded Lie Algebras

The gauge theories underlying gauged supergravity and exceptional field theory are based on tensor hierarchies: generalizations of Yang-Mills theory utilizing algebraic structures that generalize Lie algebras and, as a consequence, require higher-form gauge fields. Recently, we proposed that the algebraic structure allowing for consistent tensor hierarchies is axiomatized by ‘infinity-enhanced Leibniz algebras’ defined on graded vector spaces generalizing Leibniz algebras. It was subsequently shown that, upon appending additional vector spaces, this structure can be reinterpreted as a differential graded Lie algebra. We use this observation to streamline the construction of general tensor hierarchies, and we formulate dynamics in terms of a hierarchy of first-order duality relations, including scalar fields with a potential.

On a DGL-map between derivations of Sullivan minimal models

For a map $$f:X\rightarrow Y$$ f : X → Y , there is the relative model $$M(Y)=(\Lambda V,d)\rightarrow (\Lambda V\otimes \Lambda W,D)\simeq M(X)$$ M ( Y ) = ( Λ V , d ) → ( Λ V ⊗ Λ W , D ) ≃ M ( X ) by Sullivan model theory (Félix et al., Rational homotopy theory, graduate texts in mathematics, Springer, Berlin, 2007). Let $$\mathrm{Baut}_1X$$ Baut 1 X be the Dold–Lashof classifying space of orientable fibrations with fiber X (Dold and Lashof, Ill J Math 3:285–305, 1959]). Its DGL (differential graded Lie algebra)-model is given by the derivations $$\mathrm{Der}M(X)$$ Der M ( X ) of the Sullivan minimal model M(X) of X. Then we consider the condition that the restriction $$b_f:\mathrm{Der} (\Lambda V\otimes \Lambda W,D)\rightarrow \mathrm{Der}(\Lambda V,d) $$ b f : Der ( Λ V ⊗ Λ W , D ) → Der ( Λ V , d ) is a DGL-map and the related topics.

Explicit symmetric DGLA models of 3-cells

We give explicit formulae for differential graded Lie algebra (DGLA) models of 3-cells. In particular, for a cube and an n-faceted banana-shaped 3-cell with two vertices, n edges each joining those two vertices, and n bi-gon 2-cells, we construct a model symmetric under the geometric symmetries of the cell fixing two antipodal vertices. The cube model is to be used in forthcoming work for discrete analogues of differential geometry on cubulated manifolds.

On Deformations of Pairs (Manifold, Coherent Sheaf)

We analyse infinitesimal deformations of pairs $(X,{\mathcal{F}})$ with ${\mathcal{F}}$ a coherent sheaf on a smooth projective variety $X$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. We describe a differential graded Lie algebra controlling the deformation problem, and we prove an analog of a Mukai–Artamkin theorem about the trace map.

The formal Kuranishi parameterization via the universal homological perturbation theory solution of the deformation equation

Using homological perturbation theory, we develop a formal version of the miniversal deformation associated with a deformation problem controlled by a differential graded Lie algebra over a field of characteristic zero. Our approach includes a formal version of the Kuranishi method in the theory of deformations of complex manifolds.

Deformation of Dirac Structures via L∞ Algebras

The deformation theory of a Dirac structure is controlled by a differential graded Lie algebra that depends on the choice of an auxiliary transversal Dirac structure; if the transversal is not involutive, one obtains an $L_\infty $ algebra instead. We develop a simplified method for describing this $L_\infty $ algebra and use it to prove that the $L_\infty $ algebras corresponding to different transversals are canonically $L_\infty $–isomorphic. In some cases, this isomorphism provides a formality map, as we show in several examples including (quasi)-Poisson geometry, Dirac structures on Lie groups, and Lie bialgebras. Finally, we apply our result to a classical problem in the deformation theory of complex manifolds; we provide explicit formulas for the Kodaira–Spencer deformation complex of a fixed small deformation of a complex manifold, in terms of the deformation complex of the original manifold.

The gauge action, DG Lie algebras and identities for Bernoulli numbers

In this paper we prove a family of identities for Bernoulli numbers parameterized by triples of integers ${(a,b,c)}$ with ${a+b+c=n-1}$, ${n\geq 4}$. These identities are deduced by translating into homotopical terms the gauge action on the Maurer–Cartan set of a differential graded Lie algebra. We show that Euler and Miki’s identities, well-known and apparently non-related formulas, are linear combinations of our family and they satisfy a particular symmetry relation.

A differential-geometric approach to deformations of pairs (X, E)

This article gives an exposition of the deformation theory for pairs (X, E), where X is a compact complex manifold and E is a holomorphic vector bundle over X, adapting an analytic viewpoint `a la Kodaira- Spencer. By introducing and exploiting an auxiliary differential operator, we derive the Maurer–Cartan equation and differential graded Lie algebra (DGLA) governing the deformation problem, and express them in terms of differential-geometric notions such as the connection and curvature of E, obtaining a chain level refinement of the classical results that the tangent space and obstruction space of the moduli problem are respectively given by the first and second cohomology groups of the Atiyah extension of E over X. As an application, we give examples where deformations of pairs are unobstructed.