Formality and Kontsevich--Duflo type theorems for Lie pairs

TL;DR

This paper extends Kontsevich's formality and Duflo theorems to the setting of Lie pairs, providing new algebraic structures and isomorphisms that unify various geometric contexts such as complex manifolds and foliations.

Contribution

It introduces $L_$ algebra structures on spaces associated with Lie pairs and proves a formality theorem and a Duflo-type theorem in this generalized setting.

Findings

Established an $L_$ quasi-isomorphism between polyvector fields and polydifferential operators for Lie pairs.

Proved the Hochschild--Kostant--Rosenberg map twisted by Todd class is an algebra isomorphism.

Unified formality and Duflo theorems across complex manifolds, foliations, and $$-manifolds.

Abstract

$\newcommand{\poly}{_{\operatorname{poly}}^{\bullet}}\newcommand{\td}{(\operatorname{td}_{L/A}^{\nabla})^{\frac{1}{2}}}\newcommand{\cx}[1]{\operatorname{tot}\big(\Gamma(\Lambda^\bullet A^\vee)\otimes_R\mathcal{#1}\poly\big)}\newcommand{\cy}[1]{\mathbb{H}^\bullet_{\operatorname{CE}}(A,\mathcal{#1}\poly)}$Kontsevich's formality theorem states that there exists an $L_\infty$ quasi-isomorphism from the dgla $T\poly(M)$ of polyvector fields on a smooth manifold $M$ to the dgla $D\poly(M)$ of polydifferential operators on $M$, which extends the classical Hochschild--Kostant--Rosenberg map. In this paper, we extend Kontsevich's formality theorem to Lie pairs, a framework which includes a range of diverse geometric contexts such as complex manifolds, foliations, and $\mathfrak{g}$-manifolds. The spaces $\cx{T}$ and $\cx{D}$ associated with a Lie pair $(L,A)$ each carry an $L_\infty$ algebra structure canonical up to $L_\infty$ isomorphism. These two spaces serve as replacements for the spaces of polyvector fields and polydifferential operators, respectively. Their corresponding cohomology groups $\cy{T}$ and $\cy{D}$ admit canonical Gerstenhaber algebra structures. We establish the following formality theorem for Lie pairs: there exists an $L_\infty$ quasi isomorphism from $\cx{T}$ to $\cx{D}$ whose first Taylor coefficient is equal to $\operatorname{hkr}\circ\td$. Here $\td$ acts on $\cx{T}$ by contraction. Furthermore, we prove a Kontsevich--Duflo type theorem for Lie pairs: the Hochschild--Kostant--Rosenberg map twisted by the square root of the Todd class of the Lie pair $(L,A)$ is an isomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras from $\cy{T}$ to $\cy{D}$. As applications, we establish formality theorems and Kontsevich--Duflo type theorems for complex manifolds, foliations, and $\mathfrak{g}$-manifolds. In the case of complex manifolds, we recover the Kontsevich--Duflo theorem of complex geometry.