String structures and trivialisations of a Pfaffian line bundle

DOI10.1007/s00220-011-1348-0zbMath1238.58022arXiv0909.0846OpenAlexW2065853522MaRDI QIDQ647369

Ulrich Bunke

Publication date: 23 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0846

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theorygerbesdifferential cohomologyfamily index theoryPfaffian line bundlestring structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

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