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Formality and Kontsevich--Duflo type theorems for Lie pairs

Quantum Algebra 2019-10-15 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

\newcommand{\poly}{_{\operatorname{poly}}^{\bullet}}\newcommand{\td}{(\operatorname{td}_{L/A}^{\nabla})^{\frac{1}{2}}}\newcommand{\cx}[1]{\operatorname{tot}\big(\Gamma(\Lambda^\bullet A^\vee)\otimes_R\mathcal{#1}\poly\big)}\newcommand{\cy}[1]{\mathbb{H}^\bullet_{\operatorname{CE}}(A,\mathcal{#1}\poly)}Kontsevich's formality theorem states that there exists an LL_\infty quasi-isomorphism from the dgla T\poly(M)T\poly(M) of polyvector fields on a smooth manifold MM to the dgla D\poly(M)D\poly(M) of polydifferential operators on MM, which extends the classical Hochschild--Kostant--Rosenberg map. In this paper, we extend Kontsevich's formality theorem to Lie pairs, a framework which includes a range of diverse geometric contexts such as complex manifolds, foliations, and g\mathfrak{g}-manifolds. The spaces \cxT\cx{T} and \cxD\cx{D} associated with a Lie pair (L,A)(L,A) each carry an LL_\infty algebra structure canonical up to LL_\infty isomorphism. These two spaces serve as replacements for the spaces of polyvector fields and polydifferential operators, respectively. Their corresponding cohomology groups \cyT\cy{T} and \cyD\cy{D} admit canonical Gerstenhaber algebra structures. We establish the following formality theorem for Lie pairs: there exists an LL_\infty quasi isomorphism from \cxT\cx{T} to \cxD\cx{D} whose first Taylor coefficient is equal to hkr\td\operatorname{hkr}\circ\td. Here \td\td acts on \cxT\cx{T} by contraction. Furthermore, we prove a Kontsevich--Duflo type theorem for Lie pairs: the Hochschild--Kostant--Rosenberg map twisted by the square root of the Todd class of the Lie pair (L,A)(L,A) is an isomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras from \cyT\cy{T} to \cyD\cy{D}. As applications, we establish formality theorems and Kontsevich--Duflo type theorems for complex manifolds, foliations, and g\mathfrak{g}-manifolds. In the case of complex manifolds, we recover the Kontsevich--Duflo theorem of complex geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1605.09722,
  title  = {Formality and Kontsevich--Duflo type theorems for Lie pairs},
  author = {Hsuan-Yi Liao and Mathieu Stiénon and Ping Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09722},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

55 pages, several typos corrected, some references added, some minor cosmetic changes in the presentation

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