Higher-degree analogs of the determinant line bundle (Q1850155): Difference between revisions

In the style of the well known Quillen determinant line bundle construction in the present paper the author gives an analogous construction for a family of Dirac-type operators on an odd-dimensional manifold. Here, an abelian gerbe-with-connection takes over the role of the determinant line bundle in the Quillen construction whereas the curvature of the connection is replaced by the three-form component of the Atiyah-Singer families index theorem. Moreover, a partial extension for degree greater than three is given.