Explicit String bundles

Publication date 9 March 2022

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Abstract: While higher bundles are of clear relevance to higher gauge theory, examples other than abelian bundle gerbes are hard to come across. One would in particular like to see 2-bundles where the structure 2-group is the String 2-group associated to a compact simple simply-connected Lie group. This talk will outline a method to construct many examples over homogeneous spaces. We shall also consider one example in detail, giving explicit formulas for the crossed-module-valued Cech cocycle arising from a local trivialisation.

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