Unoriented WZW models and holonomy of bundle gerbes

DOI10.1007/s00220-007-0271-xzbMath1148.53057arXivhep-th/0512283OpenAlexW2064675480WikidataQ126253284 ScholiaQ126253284MaRDI QIDQ2460050

Christoph Schweigert, Konrad Waldorf, Urs Schreiber

Publication date: 14 November 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512283

zbMATH Keywords

Wess-Zumino termWess-Zumino-Witten modelsurface holonomybundle gerbeJandl structureunoriented surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

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