A gerbe-like construction in gauge theory
Differential Geometry
2025-05-23 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In 2022 Baraglia and Konno showed the following: for a smooth family of a homotopy surface , if the tangent bundle along the fibers admits a spin structure, then also admits a spin structure, where is the vector bundle consisting of self-dual harmonic 2-forms. In this paper, we show that admits a canonical spin structure. The proof is carried out by canonically constructing a lifting -gerbe for the spin structure on using the families Seiberg--Witten equations, starting from a lifting -gerbe for the spin structure on .
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@article{arxiv.2404.12573,
title = {A gerbe-like construction in gauge theory},
author = {Mitsuyoshi Adachi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12573},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
63 pages. Added Lemma 5.18 to modify the proof of Proposition 5.8. Modified the statement of Lemma 7.9. Add the declaration of the use of generative AI in translation