String structures and trivialisations of a Pfaffian line bundle

DOI10.1007/s00220-011-1348-0zbMath1238.58022arXiv0909.0846MaRDI QIDQ647369

Ulrich Bunke

Publication date: 23 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0846

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theory; gerbes; differential cohomology; family index theory; Pfaffian line bundle; string structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

58Z05: Applications of global analysis to the sciences

58J22: Exotic index theories on manifolds

53C27: Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry

58J52: Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion

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