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Constant Symplectic 2-Groupoids, Rajan Amit Mehta, Xiang Tang May 2018

Constant Symplectic 2-Groupoids, Rajan Amit Mehta, Xiang Tang

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We propose a definition of symplectic 2-groupoid which includes integrations of Courant algebroids that have been recently constructed. We study in detail the simple but illustrative case of constant symplectic 2-groupoids. We show that the constant symplectic 2-groupoids are, up to equivalence, in one-to-one correspondence with a simple class of Courant algebroids that we call constant Courant algebroids. Furthermore, we find a correspondence between certain Dirac structures and Lagrangian sub-2-groupoids.


Symplectic Structures On The Integration Of Exact Courant Algebroids, Rajan Amit Mehta, Xiang Tang Apr 2018

Symplectic Structures On The Integration Of Exact Courant Algebroids, Rajan Amit Mehta, Xiang Tang

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We construct an infinite-dimensional symplectic 2-groupoid as the integration of an exact Courant algebroid. We show that every integrable Dirac structure integrates to a “Lagrangian” sub-2-groupoid of this symplectic 2-groupoid. As a corollary, we recover a result of Bursztyn-Crainic-Weinstein-Zhu that every integrable Dirac structure integrates to a presymplectic groupoid.