A gerbe obstruction to quantization of fermions on odd-dimensional manifolds with boundary.

DOI10.1023/A:1007676919822MaRDI QIDQ1580926zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jouko Mickelsson, A. L. Carey

Publication date 6 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9912003

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac boundary value problemsgerbeHamiltonian quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: We consider the canonical quantization of fermions on an odd dimensional manifold with boundary, with respect to a family of elliptic hermitean boundary conditions for the Dirac hamiltonian. We show that there is a topological obstruction to a smooth quantization as a function of the boundary conditions. The obstruction is given in terms of a gerbe and its Dixmier-Douady class is evaluated.

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