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In differential geometry, a metaplectic structure is the symplectic analog of spin structure on orientable Riemannian manifolds. A metaplectic structure on a symplectic manifold allows one to define the symplectic spinor bundle, which is the Hilbert space bundle associated to the metaplectic structure via the metaplectic representation, giving rise to the notion of a symplectic spinor field in differential geometry. Symplectic spin structures have wide applications to mathematical physics, in particular to quantum field theory where they are an essential ingredient in establishing the idea that symplectic spin geometry and symplectic Dirac operators may give valuable tools in symplectic geometry and symplectic topology. They are also of purely mathematical interest in differential geometry, algebraic topology, and K theory. They form the foundation for symplectic spin geometry. == Formal definition == A metaplectic structure 〔 page 35 〕 on a symplectic manifold is an equivariant lift of the symplectic frame bundle with respect to the double covering In other words, a pair is a metaplectic structure on the principal bundle when :a) is a principal -bundle over , :b) is an equivariant -fold covering map such that : and for all and The principal bundle is also called the bundle of metaplectic frames over . Two metaplectic structures and on the same symplectic manifold are called equivalent if there exists a -equivariant map such that : and for all and Of course, in this case and are two equivalent double coverings of the symplectic frame -bundle of the given symplectic manifold . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「metaplectic structure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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