| Grant number: | 18/07593-0 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| Effective date (Start): | August 01, 2018 |
| Effective date (End): | April 08, 2019 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Algebra |
| Principal researcher: | Renato Alessandro Martins |
| Grantee: | Renato Alessandro Martins |
| Host: | Ben Lewis Cox |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia (ICT). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São José dos Campos. São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil |
| Research place: | College of Charleston, United States |
| Associated research grant: | 14/09310-5 - Algebraic structures and their representations, AP.TEM |
Abstract The notion of a gerbe was introduced by Jean Giraud in 1971 in the context of algebraic geometry following ideas of Grothendieck. In a more differential geometric setting, this notion is introduced if one lets $\mathcal H$ be a complex Hilbert space and takes $PU(\mathcal H)$ to denote the projective unitary group $U(\mathcal H)/S^1$. Then a gerbe over a topological space $X$ is a principal $PU(\mathcal H)$-bundle over $X$. The topological classification of gerbes over $X$ is given by the third integral cohomology group $H^3(X,\mathbb Z)$ and when $X$ is a topological group, this integral cohomology group can be related to the locally continuous third cohomology group of $X$. This is the object of study in the project under review but in the context of representation theory of Krichever-Novikov algebras. | |