A construction of string 2-group models using a transgression-regression technique
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Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)
Abstract: In this note we present a new construction of the string group that ends optionally in two different contexts: strict diffeological 2-groups or finite-dimensional Lie 2-groups. It is canonical in the sense that no choices are involved; all the data is written down and can be looked up (at least somewhere). The basis of our construction is the basic gerbe of Gawedzki-Reis and Meinrenken. The main new insight is that under a transgression-regression procedure, the basic gerbe picks up a multiplicative structure coming from the Mickelsson product over the loop group. The conclusion of the construction is a relation between multiplicative gerbes and 2-group extensions for which we use recent work of Schommer-Pries.
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