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Faddeev's anomaly and bundle gerbes

✍ Scribed by A. L. Carey; M. K. Murray

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 379 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0377-9017
DOI: 10.1007/bf00400136

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✦ Synopsis

We show that transgression of the Dixmier-Douady class coming from the natural gerbe arising in the discussion of Faddeev's anomaly is the Faddeev-Mickelsson 2-cocycle.

Mathematics Subject Classifications (1991). 81T50, 22E65.

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