SURFACE HOLONOMY AND GAUGE 2-GROUP

DOI10.1142/S0219887804000186zbMATH Open1081.53045arXivhep-th/0402227OpenAlexW2056939680MaRDI QIDQ4669711FDOQ4669711

Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date: 15 April 2005

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Just as point objects are parallel transported along curves, giving holonomies, string-like objects are parallel transported along surfaces, giving surface holonomies. Composition of these surfaces correspond to products in a category theoretic generalization of the gauge group, called a 2-group. I consider two different ways of constructing surface holonomies, one by using a pair of one and two form connections, and another by using a pair of one-form connections. Both procedures result in the structure of a 2-group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0402227

zbMATH Keywords

surface holonomyLie 2-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Category of groups (20J15)

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