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Spring 2013 The homotopy types of gauge groups of nonorientable surfaces and applications to moduli spaces
Stephen Theriault
Illinois J. Math. 57(1): 59-85 (Spring 2013). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1403534486

Abstract

We determine the homotopy types of gauge groups of principle $G$-bundles over closed, connected nonorientable surfaces for $G=U(n)$ and $G$ a simply-connected, compact Lie group. Applications are made to moduli spaces of stable vector bundles.

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Stephen Theriault. "The homotopy types of gauge groups of nonorientable surfaces and applications to moduli spaces." Illinois J. Math. 57 (1) 59 - 85, Spring 2013. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1403534486

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Published: Spring 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 23 June 2014

zbMATH: 1298.55006
MathSciNet: MR3224561
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1403534486

Subjects:
Primary: 55P15 , 81T13

Rights: Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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