Bundle gerbes for Chern-Simons and Wess-Zumino-Witten theories

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 577-613

  Carey, Alan L ^a   Johnson, Stuart ^b   Murray, Michael K ^b   Stevenson, Danny ^c   Wang, Bai Ling ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 24944517509     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-005-1376-8     Document Type: Article

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