Published in |
Journal of Gökova Geometry Topology, Volume 2 (2008) |
Title |
Differential characters as stacks and prequantization |
Author |
Eugene Lerman and Anton Malkin |
Abstract |
We generalize geometric prequantization of symplectic manifolds to
differentiable stacks. Our approach is atlas-independent and provides a bijection
between isomorphism classes of principal S1-bundles (with or without connections)
and second cohomology groups of certain chain complexes.
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Keywords |
Circle bundle, differential character, stack |
Pages | 14-39 |
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Submitted: | April 8, 2008 |
Accepted: | July 16, 2008 |
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