Higher gauge theory I: 2-Bundles
| dc.creator | Bartels, Toby | |
| dc.date | 2004-10-14 | |
| dc.date | 2006-06-24 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:38:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:38:54Z | |
| dc.description | I categorify the definition of fibre bundle, replacing smooth manifolds with differentiable categories, Lie groups with coherent Lie 2-groups, and bundles with a suitable notion of 2-bundle. To link this with previous work, I show that certain 2-categories of principal 2-bundles are equivalent to certain 2-categories of (nonabelian) gerbes. This relationship can be (and has been) extended to connections on 2-bundles and gerbes. The main theorem, from a perspective internal to this paper, is that the 2-category of 2-bundles over a given 2-space under a given 2-group is (up to equivalence) independent of the fibre and can be expressed in terms of cohomological data (called 2-transitions). From the perspective of linking to previous work on gerbes, the main theorem is that when the 2-space is the 2-space corresponding to a given space and the 2-group is the automorphism 2-group of a given group, then this 2-category is equivalent to the 2-category of gerbes over that space under that group (being described by the same cohomological data). | |
| dc.description | 82 pages (LaTeX), 216 diagrams (Xy-pic). Version 3: Major update, new sections, new theorems | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410328 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/100904 | |
| dc.subject | Category Theory | |
| dc.subject | 18D99 | |
| dc.title | Higher gauge theory I: 2-Bundles | |
| dc.type | text |