English

Dirac structures on the space of connections

Differential Geometry 2021-06-22 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We shall give a twisted Dirac structure on the space of irreducible connections on a SU(n)-bundle over a three-manifold, and give a family of twisted Dirac structures on the space of irreducible connections on the trivial SU(n)-bundle over a four-manifold. The twist is described by the Cartan 3-form on the space of connections. It vanishes over the subspace of flat connections. So the spaces of flat connections are endowed with ( non-twisted ) Dirac structures. The Dirac structure on the space of flat connections over the three-manifold is obtained as the boundary restriction of a corresponding Dirac structure over the four-manifold. We discuss also the action of the group of gauge transformations over these Dirac structures.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2106.10638,
  title  = {Dirac structures on the space of connections},
  author = {Yuji Hirota and Tosiaki Kori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10638},
  year   = {2021}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-24T03:23:47.109Z