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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2011

    touched string structure. Added some formal discussion, also polsihed layout and added references. But didn’t change the previous informal discussion.

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    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2021

    Added

    • Daniel Berwick-Evans, Emily Cliff, Laura Murray, Apurva Nakade, Emma Phillips, String structures, 2-group bundles, and a categorification of the Freed-Quinn line bundle (arXiv:2110.07571)

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    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2022

    Added link to arXiv version of my talk notes from 2014.

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    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2022

    Added doi links for Killingback and both Witten references

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2025

    finally added links to

    here and in other entries

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2025

    I have further adjusted the wording around the original references (here) and also added a scan from Killingback 1987 p 585 to show that both the name “string structure” and its understanding as a de-transgression of the “spin structure on loop space” (both often attributed to various mathematicians speaking much later) are both due to Killingback in 1987.

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