Bundle gerbes for orientifold sigma models

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

81T10: Model quantum field theories

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory

81Q30: Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry

81Q70: Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory

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

70S05: Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems

53C08: Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters

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