Relating gauge gravity to string theory through obstruction

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ADA966MaRDI QIDQ7011070zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Casey Cartwright, Alex T. Flournoy

Publication date 19 March 2025

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ADA966

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesgauge theories of gravityspacetime topologyspin structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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