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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0764.00003.] In the eighties, S. Albeverio, R. Høegh-Krohn, and the second author initiated a study of groups of (smooth) mappings from a Riemannian manifold \(M\) into a compact semi-simple Lie group \(G\) resulting in a theory of ``noncommutative distributions'', or current groups and their representations (most of it is summarized in a book [\textit{S. Albeverio, R. Hoegh-Krohn, B. Torresani} and the authors, `Noncommutative distributions: unitary representation of gauge groups and algebras.' (1993; Zbl 0791.22010)]). Brownian motion on \(G\) is one of the tools to study reducibility and canonical decomposition of representations of \(C^ \infty(M,G)\). In the present article, it is demonstrated that, by extending the method, one can also treat groups of smooth sections of a \(G\)-bundle \(P\) with base \(M\). In the first part, using a (measurable) trivialization of \(P\), the authors introduce fields of left-invariant Brownian motion processes and this way get new representations of the current group formed by continuous maps \(f : I \times M \to P\) with \(I\) the unit interval such that, for any \(x \in M\), the map \(f(\cdot,x)\) is in the Sobolev space \(H^ 1(I,G)\), the so-called ``Sobolev path group''. The second part is devoted to actually constructing probability measures on the group of measurable sections of \(P\), thus paving the way for studying quasi-invariance of these measures with respect to (pointwise) left translation by smooth sections. The relevance of this problem for the classification of multiplicative integrals has been suggested by Høegh-Krohn.