Surface holonomy

  • Konrad Waldorf

    University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Abstract

The notion of holonomy of a line bundle (endowed with a connection) around a loop is extended to the holonomy of a gerbe along a closed oriented surface, which corresponds to the interaction of a string with a three-form gauge field.