A gerbe obstruction to quantization of fermions on odd-dimensional manifolds with boundary

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-160

  Carey, Alan ^a   Mickelsson, Jouko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dirac boundary value problems; Gerbe; Hamiltonian quantizatin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007321420     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007676919822     Document Type: Article

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