The derivative of global surface-holonomy for a non-abelian gerbe

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101737MaRDI QIDQ2022425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Cheyne J. Glass

Publication date 29 April 2021

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09775

zbMATH Keywords

diffeological space2-holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Categories in geometry and topology (18F99)

Abstract: Starting with a non-abelian gerbe represented by a non-abelian differential cocycle, with values in a given crossed-module, this paper explicitly calculates a formula for the derivative of the associated surface holonomy of squares mapped into the base manifold; with spheres later considered as a special case. While the definitions in this paper used for gerbes, their connections, and the induced holonomy will initially be simplicial, translations into a cubical setting will be provided to aide in explicit coordinate-based calculations. While there are many previously published results on the properties of these non-abelian gerbes, including some calculations of the derivative over a single open set, this paper endeavors to take these local calculations and glue them together across multiple open sets in order to obtain a single expression for the change in surface holonomy with respect to a one-parameter family of squares.

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