An introduction to gerbes on orbifolds

Lupercio, Ernesto; Uribe, Bernardo

Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal, Tome 11 (2004) no. 2, pp. 155-180.

This paper is a gentle introduction to some recent results involving the theory of gerbes over orbifolds for topologists, geometers and physicists. We introduce gerbes on manifolds, orbifolds, the Dixmier-Douady class, Beilinson-Deligne orbifold cohomology, Cheeger-Simons orbifold cohomology and string connections.

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