Higgs fields, bundle gerbes and string structures
Differential Geometry
2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We use bundle gerbes and their connections and curvings to obtain an explicit formula for a de Rham representative of the string class of a loop group bundle. This is related to earlier work on calorons.
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@article{arxiv.math/0106179,
title = {Higgs fields, bundle gerbes and string structures},
author = {M. K. Murray and D. Stevenson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0106179},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages