
KA"hler Geometry Of Loop Spaces
Armen Sergeev(Author)
Mathematical Society of Japan (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 31. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-4-931469-60-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this book we study three important classes of infinite-dimensional Kaehler manifolds - loop spaces of compact Lie groups, Teichmueller spaces of complex structures on loop spaces, and Grassmannians of Hilbert spaces. Each of these manifolds has a rich Kaehler geometry, considered in the first part of the book, and may be considered as a universal object in a category, containing all its finite-dimensional counterparts.On the other hand, these manifolds are closely related to string theory. This motivates our interest in their geometric quantization presented in the second part of the book together with a brief survey of geometric quantization of finite-dimensional Kaehler manifolds.The book is provided with an introductory chapter containing basic notions on infinite-dimensional Frechet manifolds and Frechet Lie groups. It can also serve as an accessible introduction to Kaehler geometry of infinite-dimensional complex manifolds with special attention to the aforementioned three particular classes.It may be interesting for mathematicians working with infinite-dimensional complex manifolds and physicists dealing with string theory.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Japan
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-931469-60-0 (9784931469600)
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Content
Preliminary Concepts: Frechet Manifolds; Frechet Lie Groups; Flag Manifolds and Representations; Central Extensions and Cohomologies; Grassmannians of a Hilbert Space; Quasiconformal Maps; Loop Spaces of Compact Lie Groups: Loop Space; Central Extensions; Grassmann Realizations; Spaces of Complex Structures: Virasoro Group; Universal Techmuller Space; Quantization of Finite-Dimensional Kahler Manifolds: Dirac Quantization; Kostant-Souriau Prequantization; Blattner-Kostant-Sternberg Quantization; Quantization of Loop Spaces: Quantization of ??d; Quantization of ?TG.