A Cubical Set Approach to 2-Bundles with Connection and Wilson Surfaces

Publication date 28 August 2008

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

Abstract: In the context of non-abelian gerbes we define a cubical version of categorical group 2-bundles with connection over a smooth manifold. We define their two-dimensional parallel transport, study its properties, and define non-abelian Wilson surface functionals.

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