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

DOI10.1007/s00220-005-1376-8zbMath1088.58018arXivmath/0410013OpenAlexW2041947582MaRDI QIDQ818595

Bai-Ling Wang, Danny Stevenson, Stuart Johnson, Alan L. Carey, Michael K. Murray

Publication date: 21 March 2006

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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