From loop groups to 2-groups

Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-135

  Baez, John C ^a   Stevenson, Danny ^a   Crans, Alissa S ^b   Schreiber, Urs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 group; Gerbe; Kac Moody extension; Lie 2 algebra; Loop group; String group

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849047718     PISSN: 15320073     EISSN: 15320081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/HHA.2007.v9.n2.a4     Document Type: Article

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