Differential geometry of gerbes

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 198, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 732-846

  Breen, Lawrence ^a   Messing, William ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Curvature; Connection; Gerbe; Non abelian cohomology

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744434776     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2005.06.014     Document Type: Article

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