Homotopy decompositions of gauge groups over real surfaces

We study the homotopy types of gauge groups of principal U(n)-bundles associated to pseudo Real vector bundles in the sense of Atiyah [Ati66]. We provide satisfactory homotopy decompositions of these gauge groups into factors in which th homotopy groups are well known. Therefore, we substantially bu...

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Main Author: West, Michael
Other Authors: Theriault, Stephen
Published: University of Southampton 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698384