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Noriaki Ikeda

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arXiv2026

Gauged AKSZ sigma models

We propose a new class of sigma models that extend AKSZ sigma models, which we refer to as gauged AKSZ sigma models. These models are constructed using QP-manifolds. The compatibility between the AKSZ structure and gauging is characterized by geometric conditions on the target graded manifold. As an example, we explicitly analyze the gauging of higher Courant sigma models in higher dimensions. When fluxes and boundaries are introduced into gauged higher Courant sigma models, generalizations of momentum maps and Hamiltonian $G$-spaces arise as consistency conditions for the models.

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arXiv2026

Gauged Courant sigma models

We propose a new class of sigma models based on Courant sigma models. We refer to these models as gauged Courant sigma models (GCSMs). By introducing additional gauge symmetries, such as those associated with a Lie group, a Lie groupoid (or Lie algebroid), and a Courant algebroid on the target space, Courant sigma models are extended to gauged sigma models of AKSZ type. The consistency of the theory is ensured by identities among geometric quantities on Lie algebroids and Courant algebroids, such as curvatures and torsions, which can be interpreted as flatness conditions on the target space. We also analyze geometric structures of GCSMs in the presence of fluxes and boundaries.

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arXiv2026

Hamilton Lie algebroids over Dirac structures and sigma models

We propose a Hamiltonian Lie algebroid and a momentum section over a Dirac structure as a generalization of a Hamiltonian Lie algebroid over a pre-symplectic manifold and one over a Poisson manifold. A Hamiltonian Lie algebroid and a momentum section are generalizations of a Hamiltonian G-space and a momentum map over a symplectic manifold. We show some properties of a new Hamiltonian Lie algebroid, and construct the mechanics with this structure as an application, which are sigma models called the gauged Poisson sigma model and the gauged Dirac sigma model.

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arXiv2026

Q-Manifolds and Sigma Models

Recent developments of Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism and related geometry are reviewed. Mathematical structures of BV formalism are summarized as a Q-manifold and a QP-manifold. Lie algebras, Lie algebroids and other higher algebroids are explained as typical examples of Q- and QP-manifolds. Finally, the BV action functionals are constructed by geometric structures of Lie algebroids and Courant algebroids.

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arXiv2025

Reduction of Poisson manifolds with Hamiltonian Lie algebroids

Reduction theorem for Poisson manifolds with Hamiltonian Lie algebroids is presented. The notion of compatibility of a momentum section is introduced to the category of Hamiltonian Lie algebroids over Poisson manifolds. It is shown that a compatible momentum section is a Lie algebra homomorphism, and then the quotient space of the zero level set of a compatible momentum section proves to be a Poisson manifold.

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arXiv2025

Comomentum sections and Poisson maps in Hamiltonian Lie algebroids

In a Hamiltonian Lie algebroid over a pre-symplectic manifold and over a Poisson manifold, we introduce a map corresponding to a comomentum map, called a comomentum section. We show that the comomentum section gives a Lie algebroid morphism among Lie algebroids. Moreover, we prove that a momentum section on a Hamiltonian Lie algebroid is a Poisson map between proper Poisson manifolds, which is a generalization that a momentum map is a Poisson map between the symplectic manifold to dual of the Lie algebra. Finally, a momentum section is reinterpreted as a Dirac morphism on Dirac structures.

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arXiv2024

Current algebras from QP-manifolds in general dimensions

We propose a new unified formulation of the current algebra theory in general dimensions in terms of supergeometry. We take a QP-manifold, i.e. a differential graded (dg) symplectic manifold, as a fundamental framework. A Poisson bracket in a current algebra is constructed by the so called derived bracket of the graded Poisson structure induced from the above QP-structure. By taking a canonical transformation on a QP-manifold, correct anomalous terms in physical theories are derived. A large class of current algebras with and without anomalous terms (central extensions) are constructed from the above structure. Moreover, using this formulation, a new class of current algebras related higher structures are systematically obtained.

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arXiv2024

Geometric BV for twisted Courant sigma models and the BRST power finesse

We study twisted Courant sigma models, a class of topological field theories arising from the coupling of 3D 0-/2-form BF theory and Chern-Simons theory and containing a 4-form Wess-Zumino term. They are examples of theories featuring a nonlinearly open gauge algebra, where products of field equations appear in the commutator of gauge transformations, and they are reducible gauge systems. We determine the solution to the master equation using a technique, the BRST power finesse, that combines aspects of the AKSZ construction (which applies to the untwisted model) and the general BV-BRST formalism. This allows for a geometric interpretation of the BV coefficients in the interaction terms of the master action in terms of an induced generalised connection on a 4-form twisted (pre-)Courant algebroid, its Gualtieri torsion and the basic curvature tensor. It also produces a frame independent formulation of the model. We show, moreover, that the gauge fixed action is the sum of the classical one and a BRST commutator, as expected from a Schwarz type topological field theory.

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arXiv2024

Lectures on AKSZ Sigma Models for Physicists

This is an introductory review of topological field theories (TFTs) called AKSZ sigma models. The AKSZ construction is a mathematical formulation for the construction and analyses of a large class of TFTs, inspired by the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism of gauge theories. We begin by considering a simple two-dimensional topological field theory and explain the ideas of the AKSZ sigma models. This construction is then generalized and leads to a mathematical formulation of a general topological sigma model. We review the mathematical objects, such as algebroids and supergeometry, that are used in the analysis of general gauge structures. The quantization of the Poisson sigma model is presented as an example of a quantization of an AKSZ sigma model.

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arXiv2024

Compatible $E$-Differential Forms on Lie Algebroids over (Pre-)Multisymplectic Manifolds

We consider higher generalizations of both a (twisted) Poisson structure and the equivariant condition of a momentum map on a symplectic manifold. On a Lie algebroid over a (pre-)symplectic and (pre-)multisymplectic manifold, we introduce a Lie algebroid differential form called a compatible $E$-$n$-form. This differential form satisfies a compatibility condition, which is consistent with both the Lie algebroid structure and the (pre-)(multi)symplectic structure. There are many interesting examples such as a Poisson structure, a twisted Poisson structure and a twisted $R$-Poisson structure for a pre-$n$-plectic manifold. Moreover, momentum maps and momentum sections on symplectic manifolds, homotopy momentum maps and homotopy momentum sections on multisymplectic manifolds have this structure.

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arXiv2023

Geometry of bundle-valued multisymplectic structures with Lie algebroids

We study multisymplectic structures taking values in vector bundles with connections from the viewpoint of the Hamiltonian symmetry. We introduce the notion of bundle-valued $n$-plectic structures and exhibit some properties of them. In addition, we define bundle-valued homotopy momentum sections for bundle-valued $n$-plectic manifolds with Lie algebroids to discuss momentum map theories in both cases of quaternionic Kähler manifolds and hyper-Kähler manifolds. Furthermore, we generalize the Marsden-Weinstein-Meyer reduction theorem for symplectic manifolds and construct two kinds of reductions of vector-valued 1-plectic manifolds.

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arXiv2022

Homotopy momentum sections on multisymplectic manifolds

We introduce a notion of a homotopy momentum section on a Lie algebroid over a pre-multisymplectic manifold. A homotopy momentum section is a generalization of the momentum map with a Lie group action and the momentum section on a pre-symplectic manifold, and is also regarded as a generalization of the homotopy momentum map on a multisymplectic manifold. We show that a gauged nonlinear sigma model with Wess-Zumino term with Lie algebroid gauging has the homotopy momentum section structure.

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arXiv2022

The BV action of 3D twisted R-Poisson sigma models

We determine the solution to the classical master equation for a 3D topological field theory with Wess-Zumino term and an underlying geometrical structure of a twisted R-Poisson manifold on its target space. The graded geometry of the target space departs from the usual QP structure encountered in the AKSZ construction of topological sigma models, the obstruction being attributed to the presence of the Wess-Zumino 4-form. Due to the inapplicability of the AKSZ construction in this case, we set up the traditional BV/BRST formalism for twisted R-Poisson sigma models in any dimension, which feature an open gauge algebra and constitute multiple stages reducible constrained Hamiltonian systems. An unusual feature of the theories is that it exhibits non-linear openness of the gauge algebra, in other words products of the equations of motion appear in it. Nevertheless, we find the BV action in presence of the 4-form twist in 3D, namely for a specific 4-form twisted (pre-)Courant sigma model. Moreover, we provide a complete set of explicit formulas for the off-shell nilpotent BV operator for untwisted R-Poisson sigma models in any dimension.

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arXiv2021

Higher dimensional Lie algebroid sigma model with WZ term

We generalize the $(n+1)$-dimensional twisted $R$-Poisson topological sigma model with flux on a target Poisson manifold to a Lie algebroid. Analyzing consistency of constraints in the Hamiltonian formalism and the gauge symmetry in the Lagrangian formalism, geometric conditions of the target space to make the topological sigma model consistent are identified. The geometric condition is an universal compatibility condition of a Lie algebroid with the multi-symplectic structure. This condition is a generalization of the momentum map theory of a Lie group and is regarded as a generalization of the momentum section condition of the Lie algebroid.

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arXiv2021

Momentum section on Courant algebroid and constrained Hamiltonian mechanics

We propose a generalization of the momentum map on a symplectic manifold with a Lie algebra action to a Courant algebroid structure. The theory of a momentum section on a Lie algebroid is generalized to the theory compatible with a Courant algebroid. As an example, we identify the momentum section in a constrained Hamiltonian mechanics with Courant algebroid symmetry. Moreover, we construct cohomological formulations by considering the BFV and BV formalism of this Hamiltonian system. The Weil algebra for this structure is constructed.

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arXiv2021

Global Aspects of Doubled Geometry and Pre-rackoid

The integration problem of a C-bracket and a Vaisman (metric, pre-DFT) algebroid which are geometric structures of double field theory (DFT) is analyzed. We introduce a notion of a pre-rackoid as a global group-like object for an infinitesimal algebroid structure. We propose that several realizations of pre-rackoid structures. One realization is that elements of a pre-rackoid are defined by cotangent paths along doubled foliations in a para-Hermitian manifold. Another realization is proposed as a formal exponential map of the algebroid of DFT. We show that the pre-rackoid reduces to a rackoid that is the integration of the Courant algebroid when the strong constraint of DFT is imposed. Finally, for a physical application, we exhibit an implementation of the (pre-)rackoid in a three-dimensional topological sigma model.

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arXiv2020

From BFV to BV and spacetime covariance

The BFV formulation of a given gauge theory is usually significantly easier to obtain than its BV formulation. Grigoriev and Damgaard introduced simple formulas for obtaining the latter from the former. Since BFV relies on the Hamiltonian version of the gauge theory, however, it does not come as a surprise that in general the resulting BV theory does not exhibit space-time covariance. We provide an explicit example of this phenomenon in two spacetime dimensions and show how to restore covariance of the BV data by improving the Grigoriev--Damgaard procedure with appropriate adaptations of its original formulas.

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arXiv2020

BV and BFV for the H-twisted Poisson sigma model

We present the BFV and the BV extension of the Poisson sigma model (PSM) twisted by a closed 3-form H. There exist superfield versions of these functionals such as for the PSM and, more generally, for the AKSZ sigma models. However, in contrast to those theories, here they depend on the Euler vector field of the source manifold and contain terms mixing data from the source and the target manifold. Using an auxiliary connection $\nabla$ on the target manifold M, we obtain alternative, purely geometrical expressions without the use of superfields, which are new also for the ordinary PSM and promise straightforward adaptations to other Lie algebroid based gauge theories: The BV functional, in particular, is the sum of the classical action, the Hamiltonian lift of the (only on-shell-nilpotent) BRST differential, and a term quadratic in the antifields which is essentially the basic curvature and measures the compatibility of $\nabla$ with the Lie algebroid structure on T*M. We finally construct a Diff(M)-equivariant isomorphism between the two BV formulations.

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