String structures on loop bundles

DOI10.1007/BF01225503zbMath0672.55008OpenAlexW1972702665MaRDI QIDQ1120150

Robert Coquereaux, Krzysztof Pilch

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01225503

zbMATH Keywords

loop spacesloop groupsstring structurescentral extension of the structure groupprincipal loop bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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