The Geometry of Bundle Gerbes
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This thesis reviews the theory of bundle gerbes and then examines the higher dimensional notion of a bundle 2-gerbe. The notion of a bundle 2-gerbe connection and 2-curving are introduced and it is shown that there is a class in H(M ;Z) associated to any bundle 2-gerbe.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000