PARALLEL TRANSPORT OVER PATH SPACES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X10004156zbMath1208.81107arXiv0906.1864MaRDI QIDQ3064118

Saikat Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri, Ambar N. Sengupta

Publication date: 20 December 2010

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1864

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theory; connections; parallel transport; double categories; surface holonomy; path spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

58Z05: Applications of global analysis to the sciences

81Q70: Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory

16E45: Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects)

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