Double Category Related to Path Space Parallel Transport and Representations of Lie 2 Groups

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-55361-5_22zbMath1321.81029OpenAlexW382794929MaRDI QIDQ5258852

Saikat Chatterjee, Ambar N. Sengupta, Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date: 24 June 2015

Published in: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55361-5_22

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05)

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