Bundle gerbes for orientifold sigma models

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2011.v15.n3.a1zbMath1280.81089arXiv0809.5125OpenAlexW2964351775MaRDI QIDQ695653

Konrad Waldorf, Rafał R. Suszek, Krzysztof Gawędzki

Publication date: 21 December 2012

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5125

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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