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Gerbes in classical Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We construct geometrically a gerbe assigned to a connection on a principal SU(2)-bundle over an oriented closed 1-dimensional manifold. If the connection is given by the restriction of a connection on a bundle over a compact 2-manifold bounding the 1-manifold, then we have a natural object in the gerbe. The gerbes and the objects satisfy certain fundamental properties, e.g. gluing law.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0105072,
  title  = {Gerbes in classical Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Kiyonori Gomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0105072},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

18 pages. We make some small corrections