Journal of Lie Theory 28 (2018), No. 3, 711--733
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2018
Representations up to Homotopy from Weighted Lie Algebroids
Andrew James Bruce
Mathematics Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Maison du Nombre, 6 Avenue de la Fonte, 4364 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
andrewjamesbruce@googlemail.com
Janusz Grabowski
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Sniadeckich 8, 00-656 Warszawa, Poland
jagrab@impan.pl
Luca Vitagliano
Dept. of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II n. 123, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
lvitagliano@unisa.it
Weighted Lie algebroids were recently introduced as Lie algebroids equipped with an additional compatible non-negative grading, and represent a wide generalisation of the notion of a VB-algebroid. There is a close relation between two term representations up to homotopy of Lie algebroids and VB-algebroids. In this paper we show how this relation generalises to weighted Lie algebroids and in doing so we uncover new and natural examples of higher term representations up to homotopy of Lie algebroids. Moreover, we show how the van Est theorem generalises to weighted objects.
Keywords: Graded manifolds, Lie algebroids, Lie groupoids, representations up to homotopy.
MSC: 16W50, 22A22, 53D17
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