Principal Bundles and the Dixmier Douady Class
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A systematic consideration of the problem of the reduction and extension of the structure group of a principal bundle is made and a variety of techniques in each case are explored and related to one another. We apply these to the study of the DixmierDouady class in various contexts including string structures, Ures bundles and other examples motivated by considerations from quantum field theory.
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