On two-dimensional holonomy

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-04857-3MaRDI QIDQ3056564zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors João Martins, Roger Picken

Publication date 12 November 2010

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4310

zbMATH Keywords

2-bundlecategorical groupcrossed modulenon-Abelian gerbetwo-dimensional holonomyWilson sphereWilson sphere non-Abelian gerbe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: We define the thin fundamental categorical group ${mathcalP}_2(M,\ast )$ of a based smooth manifold $(M,\ast )$ as the categorical group whose objects are rank-1 homotopy classes of based loops on $M$, and whose morphisms are rank-2 homotopy classes of homotopies between based loops on $M$. Here two maps are rank-$n$ homotopic, when the rank of the differential of the homotopy between them equals $n$. Let $C(Gc)$ be a Lie categorical group coming from a Lie crossed module $Gc=(dcolonEoG,r)$. We construct categorical holonomies, defined to be smooth morphisms ${mathcalP}_2(M,\ast )oC(Gc)$, by using a notion of categorical connections, being a pair $(w,m)$, where $w$ is a connection 1-form on $P$, a principal $G$ bundle over $M$, and $m$ is a 2-form on $P$ with values in the Lie algebra of $E$, with the pair $(w,m)$ satisfying suitable conditions. As a further result, we are able to define Wilson spheres in this context.

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