Determinant line bundle

In differential geometry, the determinant line bundle is a construction, which assigns every vector bundle over paracompact spaces a line bundle. Its name comes from using the determinant on their classifying spaces. Determinant line bundles naturally arise in four-dimensional spinc structures and are therefore of central importance for Seiberg–Witten theory.

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