Atiyah sequence and gauge transformations of a principal 2-bundle over a Lie groupoid

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Abstract: In this paper, a notion of a principal 2-bundle over a Lie groupoid has been introduced. For such principal 2-bundles, we produced a short exact sequence of VB-groupoids, namely, the Atiyah sequence. Two notions of connection structures viz. strict connections and semi-strict connections on a principal 2-bundle arising respectively, from a retraction of the Atiyah sequence and a retraction up to a natural isomorphism have been introduced. We constructed a class of principal mathbbG=[G1ightrightarrowsG0]-bundles and connections from a given principal G0-bundle E0ightarrowX0 over [X1ightrightarrowsX0] with connection. An existence criterion for the connections on a principal 2-bundle over a proper, 'etale Lie groupoid is proposed. The action of the 2-group of gauge transformations on the category of strict and semi-strict connections has been studied. Finally we noted an extended symmetry of the category of semi-strict connections.




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