Orientation and string structures on loop space

DOI10.2140/PJM.1992.155.143MaRDI QIDQ811622zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis A. McLaughlin

Publication date 1992

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1992.155.143

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant string structuresorienting loop spacetopological obstruction to existence of string structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Review text

This paper deals rigorously with the notion of a string structure and the topological obstruction to its existence. The question of orienting loop space is discussed, and shown to be directly analogous to orientation of finite-dimensional manifolds. Finally, equivariant string structures are considered.

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• Stochastic gauge transform of the string bundle
• The geometry of degree-four characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces. I
• Analysis on loop spaces and topology
• Multiplets of representations and Kostant's Dirac operator for equal rank loop groups
• The geometry of degree-4 characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces. II
• An analytical approach to the equivariant index and Witten genus on spin manifolds
• Cubic forms, anomaly cancellation and modularity
• Bigerbes
• Witten genus and elliptic genera for proper actions
• Fusion of implementers for spinors on the circle
• Twistor spaces and spinors over loop spaces
• String structures associated to indefinite Lie groups
• Spin structures on loop spaces that characterize string manifolds
• Quotient of a loop group and Witten genus
• String connections and Chern-Simons theory
• The elliptic Weyl character formula
• A loop space formulation for geometric lifting problems
• CIRCLE ACTIONS, CENTRAL EXTENSIONS AND STRING STRUCTURES
• Homological obstructions to string orientations
• Hilbert Space of Spinor Fields Over the Free Loop Space
• Lifting problems and transgression for non-abelian gerbes
• Singular Integral Homology of the Stochastic Loop Space
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• STOCHASTIC ADAMS THEOREM FOR A GENERAL COMPACT MANIFOLD
• Stochastic Cohomology of the Frame Bundle of the Loop Space
• BUNDLE GERBES APPLIED TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
• COVER OF THE BROWNIAN BRIDGE AND STOCHASTIC SYMPLECTIC ACTION
• String structure over the Brownian bridge
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES ON CLASSIFYING SPACES AND STRING STRUCTURES
• String geometry vs. spin geometry on loop spaces
• \(S^1\)-equivariant Chern-Weil constructions on loop space
• On the Moduli of a Quantized Elastica in ℙ and KdV Flows: Study of Hyperelliptic Curves as an Extension of Euler's Perspective of Elastica I
• Holonomies of intersecting branes
• \(\text{String}^c\) structures and modular invariants
• Towards an M5‐Brane Model II: Metric String Structures
• The Clifford algebra bundle on loop space
• String orientations of simplicial homology manifolds
• Smooth Fock bundles, and spinor bundles on loop space
• Connes fusion of spinors on loop space
• Explicit non-abelian gerbes with connections
• Relating gauge gravity to string theory through obstruction
• Rigid models for 2-gerbes. I: Chern-Simons geometry
• Geometric cycles, index theory and twisted \(K\)-homology
• Witten genus and vanishing results on complete intersections

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