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Higher dimensional formal loop spaces

Algebraic Geometry 2020-10-21 v1

Abstract

If MM is a symplectic manifold then the space of smooth loops C(S1,M)\mathrm C^{\infty}(\mathrm S^1,M) inherits of a quasi-symplectic form. We will focus in this article on an algebraic analogue of that result. In 2004, Kapranov and Vasserot introduced and studied the formal loop space of a scheme XX. We generalize their construction to higher dimensional loops. To any scheme XX -- not necessarily smooth -- we associate Ld(X)\mathcal L^d(X), the space of loops of dimension dd. We prove it has a structure of (derived) Tate scheme -- ie its tangent is a Tate module: it is infinite dimensional but behaves nicely enough regarding duality. We also define the bubble space Bd(X)\mathcal B^d(X), a variation of the loop space. We prove that Bd(X)\mathcal B^d(X) is endowed with a natural symplectic form as soon as XX has one (in the sense of [PTVV]). Throughout this paper, we will use the tools of (,1)(\infty,1)-categories and symplectic derived algebraic geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2010.10318,
  title  = {Higher dimensional formal loop spaces},
  author = {Benjamin Hennion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.10318},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Preprint from 2015, extracted from the author's PhD thesis arXiv:1412.0053

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