Local theory for 2-functors on path 2-groupoids

DOI10.1007/S40062-016-0140-4MaRDI QIDQ2410696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Urs Schreiber, Konrad Waldorf

Publication date 18 October 2017

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4663

zbMATH Keywords

descent theoryfundamental 2-groupoidnon-abelian gerbesparallel transportsmooth paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

Abstract: In this article we discuss local aspects of 2-functors defined on the path 2-groupoid of a smooth manifold; in particular, local trivializations and descent data. This is a contribution to a project that provides an axiomatic formulation of connections on (possibly non-abelian) gerbes in terms of 2-functors. The main result of this paper establishes the first part of this formulation: we prove an equivalence between the globally defined 2-functors and their locally defined descent data. The second part appears in a separate publication; there we prove equivalences between descent data, on one side, and various existing versions of gerbes with connection on the other side.

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