Twisted-product categorical bundles (Q893245)

The author's purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of product categorical bundles and propose the notion of twisted-product categorical bundles, a richer and more widely applicable notion that could be used to formulate local triviality for categorical principal bundles. In the paper the authors have (i) explored the nature of product categorical principal bundles \({\mathbf B} \times {\mathbf G} \rightarrow {\mathbf B}\), (ii) studied functorial cocycles analogous to group-valued cocycles used as transition functions for traditional principal bundles, (iii) introduced the notion of a twisted-product categorical bundle, and (iv) proved that every categorical principal bundle arising from a traditional trivial principal bundle by decorating (by means of a connection, for example) is categorically isomorphic to a twisted-product categorical bundle.