Holonomy and parallel transport for Abelian gerbes

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 287-339

  Mackaay, Marco ^a   Picken, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

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EID: 0037174517     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-8708(02)92085-2     Document Type: Article

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