Bundles with a lift of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms
Differential Geometry
2009-11-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We slightly extend the notion of a natural fibre bundle by requiring diffeomorphisms of the base to lift to automorphisms of the bundle only infinitesimally, i.e. at the level of the Lie algebra of vector fields. Spin structures are natural only in this extended sense. We classify fibre bundles with this property, assuming a finite dimensional structure group. This includes all spin structures, but only some generalised spin structures. This classification links the gauge group G to the topology of space-time.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.3532,
title = {Bundles with a lift of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms},
author = {Bas Janssens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3532},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
39 pages