Flat connections from flat gerbes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
We discuss some aspects of heterotic-Type I duality. We focus on toroidal compactification, with special attention for the topology of the gauge group, and the topology of the bundle. We review the arguments leading to a classification of Spin(32)/Z_2-bundles over tori, suitable for string compactifications. A central role is played by n-gerbes with connection, a generalization of bundles with connection.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0201072,
title = {Flat connections from flat gerbes},
author = {Arjan Keurentjes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0201072},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
LaTex, 6 pages, contributed to the proceedings of the RTN meeting ``The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions'', (Corfu, September 2001)