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Dirac generating operators of split Courant algebroids

Differential Geometry 2022-06-22 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Given a vector bundle AA over a smooth manifold MM such that the square root L\mathcal{L} of the line bundle topAtopTM\wedge^{\mathrm{top}}A^\ast \otimes \wedge^{\mathrm{top}}T^\ast M exists, the Clifford bundle associated to the split pseudo-Euclidean vector bundle (E=AA,,)(E = A \oplus A^\ast, \langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle), admits a spinor bundle AL\wedge^\bullet A \otimes \mathcal{L}, whose section space can be thought of as that of Berezinian half-densities of the graded manifold A[1]A^\ast[1]. We give an explicit construction of Dirac generating operators of split Courant algebroid (or proto-bialgebroid) structures on AAA \oplus A^\ast introduced by Alekseev and Xu. We also prove that the square of the Dirac generating operator gives rise to an invariant of the split Courant algebroid.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10091,
  title  = {Dirac generating operators of split Courant algebroids},
  author = {Liqiang Cai and Zhuo Chen and Honglei Lang and Maosong Xiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10091},
  year   = {2022}
}

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