Higher holonomies: comparing two constructions

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.02.003MaRDI QIDQ2348078zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Camilo Arias Abad, Florian Schätz

Publication date 10 June 2015

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0729

zbMATH Keywords

higher category theoryhigher connectionshigher gauge theoryparallel transportsuperconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: We compare two different constructions of higher dimensional parallel transport. On the one hand, there is the two dimensional parallel transport associated to 2-connections on 2-bundles studied by Baez-Schreiber, Faria Martins-Picken and Schreiber-Waldorf. On the other hand, there are the higher holonomies associated to flat superconnections as studied by Igusa, Block-Smith and Arias Abad-Schaetz. We first explain how by truncating the latter construction one obtains examples of the former. Then we prove that the 2-dimensional holonomies provided by the two approaches coincide.

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