Higher bundle gerbes and cohomology classes in gauge theories

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00014-9zbMath0884.55004arXivhep-th/9511169MaRDI QIDQ1349442

Alan L. Carey, Michael K. Murray, Bai-Ling Wang

Publication date: 2 April 1998

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511169

zbMATH Keywords

manifolds; gauge theory; integral cohomology; bundle gerbe; Faddeev-Mickelsson cocycle; geometrical realization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

55N30: Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology

46M20: Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.)

57R95: Realizing cycles by submanifolds

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