The universal Gerbe, Dixmier-Douady class, and gauge theory

DOI10.1023/A:1014456501506zbMath1003.58022arXivhep-th/0107207OpenAlexW3160828549MaRDI QIDQ1599579

Alan L. Carey, Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date: 11 June 2002

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107207

zbMATH Keywords

superconnectionDixmier-Douady classgerbe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Index theory (19K56)

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