THE GAUGING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL BOSONIC SIGMA MODELS ON WORLD-SHEETS WITH DEFECTS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X13500104zbMath1278.81135arXiv1202.5808OpenAlexW2032894264MaRDI QIDQ2846473

Rafał R. Suszek, Konrad Waldorf, Krzysztof Gawędzki

Publication date: 5 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5808

zbMATH Keywords

defectsgerbesworld-sheet\(G\)-equivariant structuresgauged sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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A classification of equivariant gerbe connections ⋮ Global gauge anomalies in coset models of conformal field theory ⋮ Gerbes in geometry, field theory, and quantisation

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