Smooth functorial field theories from B-fields and D-branes

DOI10.1007/s40062-020-00272-2zbMath1464.81051arXiv1911.09990OpenAlexW2991121915MaRDI QIDQ2023787

Konrad Waldorf, Severin Bunk

Publication date: 3 May 2021

Published in: Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09990

zbMATH Keywords

surface holonomytopological quantum field theorybundle gerbesfunctorial field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Monoidal categories, symmetric monoidal categories (18M05)

Related Items

Smooth 1-dimensional algebraic quantum field theories, Homotopy sheaves on generalised spaces, Smooth 2-group extensions and symmetries of bundle gerbes, Gerbes in geometry, field theory, and quantisation

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