Published September 2002
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Journal article
Flat connections from flat gerbes
Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75230 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
Description
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)/Z2-bundles over tori, suitable for string compactifications. A central role is played by n-gerbes with connection, a generalization of bundles with connection. (Abstract Copyright[2002], Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Fortschritte der Physik
- Journal Volume
- 50
- Journal Issue
- 8-9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 916-922
- ISSN
- 0015-8208
- CODEN
- FPYKA6
Conference
- Title
- Across the present energy frontier - probing the origin of mass, RTN meeting: The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions
- Acronym
- 2001 Corfu summer institute on elementary particle physics, including 7. Hellenic summer school and workshops on high energy physics, RTN meeting
- Dates
- 31 Aug - 20 Sep 2001
- Place
- Corfu (Greece)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 33046768
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPACTIFICATION; DUALITY; LIE GROUPS; SUPERSTRING MODELS; TOPOLOGY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; STRING MODELS; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 19 refs.