Differential geometry of gerbes and differential forms

MaRDI QIDQ2997013zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lawrence Breen

Publication date 6 May 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1833

zbMATH Keywords

connective structuregerbeČech-de Rham cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

Abstract: We discuss certain aspects of the combinatorial approach to the differential geometry of non-abelian gerbes, due to W. Messing and the author (arXiv:math.AG/0106083), and give a more direct derivation of the associated cocycle equations. This leads us to a more restrictive definition of the corresponding coboundary relations. We also show that the diagrammatic proofs of certain local curving and curvature equations may be replaced by computations with differential forms.

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