\(k\)-gerbes, line bundles and anomalies

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/038zbMATH Open0965.81126arXivhep-th/0002063OpenAlexW2115346600MaRDI QIDQ5928822

C. Ekstrand

Publication date: 4 April 2001

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use sets of trivial line bundles for the realization of gerbes. For 1-gerbes the structure arises naturally for the Weyl fermion vacuum bundle at a fixed time. The Schwinger term is an obstruction in the triviality of a 1-gerbe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002063

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43)

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