THE GAUGING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL BOSONIC SIGMA MODELS ON WORLD-SHEETS WITH DEFECTS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X13500104zbMath1278.81135arXiv1202.5808MaRDI QIDQ2846473

Rafał R. Suszek, Konrad Waldorf, Krzysztof Gawędzki

Publication date: 5 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5808

zbMATH Keywords

defects; gerbes; world-sheet; \(G\)-equivariant structures; gauged sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55R91: Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology

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

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

70S10: Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems

53C08: Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters

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