Gerbes and duality

DOI10.1006/APHY.2002.6283zbMath1015.81049arXivhep-th/0205002OpenAlexW3102480537MaRDI QIDQ1851245

M. I. Caicedo, Alvaro Restuccia, Isbelia Martin

Publication date: 16 December 2002

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205002

zbMATH Keywords

\(d=11\) supermembraneantisymmetric fields with transitionsDirichlet supermembranegeneralized Dirac quantization conditiongeneralizing U(1) bundlesquantized charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80)

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