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Pure MathematicsUniversity of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x43484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
John Huerta, University of Lisbon
"Bundle gerbes on Lie supergroups"
Bundle gerbes are analogues of line bundles important for conformal field theory, anomalies, and obstruction theory. Among bundle gerbes, a central role is played by the basic bundle gerbe, an essentially unique gerbe on any compact, simple and simply-connected Lie group. In this talk, we describe our work constructing the basic bundle gerbe for a large family of simple Lie supergroups, and show how the basic gerbe on a Lie supergroup decomposes into a tensor product of gerbes on the underlying Lie group and an auxiliary 2-form.
This seminar will be held jointly online and in person:
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x43484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
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