Infinitesimal Symmetries of Dixmier-Douady Gerbes
Differential Geometry
2011-08-09 v1 Category Theory
Abstract
We introduce the infinitesimal symmetries of Dixmier-Douady gerbes over a manifold M, both with and without connective structures and curvings. We explore the algebraic structure possessed by these symmetries, and relate them to equivariant gerbes via a "differentiation functor". In the case that a gerbe G is equipped with a connective structure A, we give a new construction of the Courant algebroid associated to (G,A) directly in terms of the infinitesimal symmetries of (G,A).
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@article{arxiv.1108.1525,
title = {Infinitesimal Symmetries of Dixmier-Douady Gerbes},
author = {Braxton L. Collier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.1525},
year = {2011}
}