Bigerbes

DOI10.2140/AGT.2021.21.3335MaRDI QIDQ2070093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Kottke, Richard Melrose

Publication date 21 January 2022

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03081

zbMATH Keywords

2-gerbebigerbegerbeloop spacemultigerbestring structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The bigerbes introduced here give a refinement of the notion of 2-gerbes, representing degree four integral cohomology classes of a space. Defined in terms of bisimplicial line bundles, bigerbes have a symmetry with respect to which they form 'bundle 2-gerbes' in two ways; this structure replaces higher associativity conditions. We provide natural examples, including a Brylinski-McLaughlin bigerbe associated to a principal G-bundle for a simply connected simple Lie group. This represents the first Pontryagin class of the bundle, and is the obstruction to the lifting problem on the associated principal bundle over the loop space to the structure group consisting of a central extension of the loop group; in particular, trivializations of this bigerbe for a spin manifold are in bijection with string structures on the original manifold. Other natural examples represent 'decomposable' 4-classes arising as cup products, a universal bigerbe on K(Z,4) involving its based double loop space, and the representation of any 4-class on a space by a bigerbe involving its free double loop space. The generalization to 'multigerbes' of arbitrary degree is also described.

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