Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maglio, Antonio, Tortorella, Alfonso G., Vitagliano, Luca
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17661
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909233411260416
author Maglio, Antonio
Tortorella, Alfonso G.
Vitagliano, Luca
author_facet Maglio, Antonio
Tortorella, Alfonso G.
Vitagliano, Luca
contents We define \emph{$0$-shifted} and \emph{$+1$-shifted contact structures} on differentiable stacks, thus laying the foundations of \emph{shifted Contact Geometry}. As a side result we show that the kernel of a multiplicative $1$-form on a Lie groupoid (might not exist as a Lie groupoid but it) always exists as a differentiable stack, and it is naturally equipped with a stacky version of the curvature of a distribution. Contact structures on orbifolds provide examples of $0$-shifted contact structures, while prequantum bundles over $+1$-shifted symplectic groupoids provide examples of $+1$-shifted contact structures. Our shifted contact structures are related to shifted symplectic structures via a Symplectic-to-Contact Dictionary.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2306_17661
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Shifted Contact Structures on Differentiable Stacks
Maglio, Antonio
Tortorella, Alfonso G.
Vitagliano, Luca
Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Symplectic Geometry
22A22, 53D10, 53D17, 18N50
We define \emph{$0$-shifted} and \emph{$+1$-shifted contact structures} on differentiable stacks, thus laying the foundations of \emph{shifted Contact Geometry}. As a side result we show that the kernel of a multiplicative $1$-form on a Lie groupoid (might not exist as a Lie groupoid but it) always exists as a differentiable stack, and it is naturally equipped with a stacky version of the curvature of a distribution. Contact structures on orbifolds provide examples of $0$-shifted contact structures, while prequantum bundles over $+1$-shifted symplectic groupoids provide examples of $+1$-shifted contact structures. Our shifted contact structures are related to shifted symplectic structures via a Symplectic-to-Contact Dictionary.
title Shifted Contact Structures on Differentiable Stacks
topic Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Symplectic Geometry
22A22, 53D10, 53D17, 18N50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17661