The Dixmier-Douady class in the simplicial de Rham complex (Q389049)

The content of this paper is an explicit construction of a cocycle representing the Dixmier-Douady class of a lifting bundle gerbe in the simplicial de Rham complex of the simplicial classifying space \(BG\). The corresponding lifting problem is known at least since \textit{A. Grothendieck} [A general theory of fibre spaces with structure sheaf. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas, Dept. of Mathematics (1958)] and has been refined to the smooth setting by \textit{M. K. Murray} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 54, No. 2, 403--416 (1996; Zbl 0867.55019)]. The constructed cocycle depends on the choice of a connection \(\theta\) on the \(\mathrm{U}(1)\)-bundle \(\mathrm{U}(1)\to \hat{G}\to G\) and a trivialisation of \(\pi_{2}^{*}\hat{G}\otimes \mu^{*}\hat{G}^{-1}\otimes \pi_{1}^{*}\hat{G}\) over \(G\times G\). Note that the latter is already completely encoded in the group structure of \(\hat{G}\). However, the cohomology class does not depend on these choices. In the end, a coboundary for the pull-back of the above class to the simplicial universal \(G\)-bundle is constructed.