Principal bundles and the Dixmier Douady class

DOI10.1007/S002200050323MaRDI QIDQ1268044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael K. Murray, A. L. Carey, Diarmuid Crowley

Publication date 14 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702147

zbMATH Keywords

Dixmier-Douady classquantum field theoryreduction and lifting of the structure group of a principal bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: A systematic consideration of the problem of the reduction and extension of the structure group of a principal bundle is made and a variety of techniques in each case are explored and related to one another. We apply these to the study of the Dixmier-Douady class in various contexts including string structures, U-res bundles and other examples motivated by considerations from quantum field theory.

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