PARALLEL TRANSPORT OVER PATH SPACES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X10004156MaRDI QIDQ3064118zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saikat Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri, Ambar N. Sengupta

Publication date 20 December 2010

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1864

zbMATH Keywords

connectionsdouble categoriesgauge theoryparallel transportpath spacessurface holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We develop a differential geometric framework for parallel transport over path spaces and a corresponding discrete theory, an integrated version of the continuum theory, using a category-theoretic framework.

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