Bundle gerbes for Chern-Simons and Wess-Zumino-Witten theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1376-8zbMATH Open1088.58018arXivmath/0410013OpenAlexW2041947582MaRDI QIDQ818595FDOQ818595

Authors: Stuart Johnson, Danny Stevenson, Bai-Ling Wang, A. L. Carey, Michael K. Murray 

Publication date: 21 March 2006

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

Abstract: We develop the theory of Chern-Simons bundle 2-gerbes and multiplicative bundle gerbes associated to any principal $G$-bundle with connection and a class in $$ for a compact semi-simple Lie group $G$. The Chern-Simons bundle 2-gerbe realises differential geometrically the Cheeger-Simons invariant. We apply these notions to refine the Dijkgraaf-Witten correspondence between three dimensional Chern-Simons functionals and Wess-Zumino-Witten models associated to the group $G$. We do this by introducing a lifting to the level of bundle gerbes of the natural map from $$ to $$. The notion of a multiplicative bundle gerbe accounts geometrically for the subtleties in this correspondence for non-simply connected Lie groups. The implications for Wess-Zumino-Witten models are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410013

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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