Bundle gerbes and surface holonomy

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Authors Jürgen Fuchs, Thomas Nikolaus, Christoph Schweigert, Konrad Waldorf

Publication date 17 June 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2085

zbMATH Keywords

\(D\)--branesbi-branesbundle gerbesconformal field theoryJandl gerbessurface holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: Hermitian bundle gerbes with connection are geometric objects for which a notion of surface holonomy can be defined for closed oriented surfaces. We systematically introduce bundle gerbes by closing the pre-stack of trivial bundle gerbes under descent. Inspired by structures arising in a representation theoretic approach to rational conformal field theories, we introduce geometric structure that is appropriate to define surface holonomy in more general situations: Jandl gerbes for unoriented surfaces, D-branes for surfaces with boundaries, and bi-branes for surfaces with defect lines.

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