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Higher Extensions of Lie Algebroids

Mathematical Physics 2017-04-10 v4 Differential Geometry math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

We study the extension of a Lie algebroid by a representation up to homotopy, including semidirect products of a Lie algebroid with such representations. The extension results in a higher Lie algebroid. We give exact Courant algebroids and string Lie 2-algebras as examples of such extensions. We then apply this to obtain a Lie 2-groupoid integration of an exact Courant algebroid.

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@article{arxiv.1103.5920,
  title  = {Higher Extensions of Lie Algebroids},
  author = {Yunhe Sheng and Chenchang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5920},
  year   = {2017}
}

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32 pages