Higgs fields, bundle gerbes and string structures

DOI10.1007/s00220-003-0984-4zbMath1085.53019arXivmath/0106179OpenAlexW2070324811MaRDI QIDQ2567483

Danny Stevenson, Michael K. Murray

Publication date: 5 October 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106179

zbMATH Keywords

de Rham cohomologymonopolesloop groupsDixmier-Douady classKac-Moody groupPontrjagin classcaloronsperiodic instantonsbundle gerbesstring structuresthe central extension of the loop grouptwisted Higgs fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

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