Nonabelian bundle gerbes, their differential geometry and gauge theory

DOI10.1007/s00220-004-1220-6zbMath1092.53020arXivhep-th/0312154OpenAlexW3104654131WikidataQ115388689 ScholiaQ115388689MaRDI QIDQ2571121

Luigi Cantini, Paolo Aschieri, Branislav Jurčo

Publication date: 31 October 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312154

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theory cocycle fibre bundle bibundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

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