Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Gonçalo Oliveira, Duke University

Gerbes on $G_2$ manifolds

On a projective complex manifold, the Abelian group of Divisors maps onto that of holomorphic line bundles (the Picard group). I shall explain a funny analogue of this for $G_2$-manifolds using coassociative submanifolds to define an analogue of Div, and a gauge theoretical equation for a connection on a gerbe to define an analogue of Pic.