Gerbes and duality

DOI10.1006/aphy.2002.6283zbMath1015.81049arXivhep-th/0205002MaRDI QIDQ1851245

Alvaro Restuccia, Isbelia Martin, M. I. Caicedo

Publication date: 16 December 2002

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205002

zbMATH Keywords

\(d=11\) supermembrane; antisymmetric fields with transitions; Dirichlet supermembrane; generalized Dirac quantization condition; generalizing U(1) bundles; quantized charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

57R57: Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds

83E15: Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories

14J80: Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants)

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