A note on -gerbes and transgressions

  • Mauro Spera

    Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy

Abstract

In this note we provide an explicit interpretation of a class of -gerbes with multi-layered connections in terms of transgression of a fibrewise closed -form on a fibration to a closed -form on the base manifold, with the basic example of the Euler class of an oriented vector bundle in mind (). Picken's and Ferreira–Gothen’s -gerbopoles are discussed from this point of view. Furthermore, string structures (à la Cocquereaux–Pilch and à la Spera–Wurzbacher) are briefly addressed and recast within the proposed framework.

Cite this article

Mauro Spera, A note on -gerbes and transgressions. Port. Math. 68 (2011), no. 4, pp. 381–387

DOI 10.4171/PM/1897