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Reduction of strongly equivariant bundle gerbes with connection and curving

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

From a certain strongly equivariant bundle gerbe with connection and curving over a smooth manifold on which a Lie group acts, we construct under some conditions a bundle gerbe with connection and curving over the quotient space. In general, the construction requires a choice, and we can consequently obtain distinct stable isomorphism classes of bundle gerbes with connection and curving over the quotient space. A bundle gerbe naturally arising in Chern-Simons theory provides an example of the reduction.

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@article{arxiv.math/0406144,
  title  = {Reduction of strongly equivariant bundle gerbes with connection and curving},
  author = {Kiyonori Gomi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406144},
  year   = {2007}
}

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47 pages, LaTex 2e, Xypic, errors corrected