Connections on non-abelian Gerbes and their Holonomy

zbMath1279.53024arXiv0808.1923MaRDI QIDQ2847370

Konrad Waldorf, Urs Schreiber

Publication date: 4 September 2013

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1923

zbMATH Keywords

parallel transportsmoothness conditionconnectionsurface holonomygerbeDeligne cohomology\(2\)-categoryLie \(2\)-groupoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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