We present an approach to Jacobi and contact geometry that makes many facts, presented in the literature in an overcomplicated way, much more natural and clear. The key concepts are Kirillov manifolds and linear Kirillov structures, i.e., homogeneous Poisson manifolds and, respectively, homogeneous linear Poisson manifolds. The difference with the existing literature is that the homogeneity of ...

We continue an analysis of representations of cylindrical functions and fluxes which are commonly used as elementary variables of Loop Quantum Gravity. We consider an arbitrary principal bundle of a compact connected structure group and following Sahlmann’s ideas [2] define a holonomy-flux ∗-algebra whose elements correspond to the elementary variables. There exists a natural action of automorp...

We show that the extended principal bundle of a Cartan geometry type (A(m,R),GL(m,R)), endowed with its connection ωˆ, is isomorphic to A(m,R)-bundle affine frames as defined in classical Kobayashi-Nomizu volume I. Then we classify local holonomy groups canonically associated Riemannian manifold. It follows if group manifold compact then locally product cones.

Let M be a compact connected Fujiki manifold, G semisimple affine algebraic group over C with one simple factor and P fixed proper parabolic subgroup of G. For holomorphic principal G–bundle EG M, let EP the P–bundle EG⟶EG/P given by quotient map. We prove that following three statements are equivalent: (1) ad(EG) is numerically flat, (2) line bundle ⋀topad(EP)⁎ nef, (3) for every reduced irred...

Let G be a topological group and let EC be a free contractible G-space. The Bore1 construction on a G-space X is the orbit space Xo = EC x G X. When asked what equivariant cohomology is, most people would answer Bore1 cohomology, namely H:(X) = H*(X,). This theory has the claim of priority and the merit of ready computability, and many very beautiful results have been proven with it. However, i...

It is shown that every quantum principal bundle is braided, in the sense that there exists an intrinsic braid operator twisting the functions on the bundle. A detailed algebraic analysis of this operator is performed. In particular, it turns out that the braiding admits a natural extension to the level of arbitrary differential forms on the bundle. Applications of the formalism to the study of ...

The homotopy type of classifying spaces of gauge groups of principal SU(2) bundle over S 4 are classi ed by the absolute value of their instanton numbers.

Gauge theory usually investigates the space of principal connections on a principal fiber bundle (P, p, M, G) and its orbit space under the action of the gauge group (called the moduli space), which is the group of all principal bundle automorphisms of P which cover the identity on the base space M. It is the arena for the Yang-Mills-Higgs equations which allows (with structure group U (1) × SU...