Differential geometry of gerbes

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2005.06.014zbMath1102.14013arXivmath/0106083OpenAlexW2024272780WikidataQ115362132 ScholiaQ115362132MaRDI QIDQ2577012

William Messing, Lawrence Breen

Publication date: 29 December 2005

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106083

zbMATH Keywords

curvatureconnectiongerbestack

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Geometric quantization (53D50) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20)

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