Measurable categories and 2-groups

DOI10.1007/S10485-005-9004-5MaRDI QIDQ2432571zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Crane, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 25 October 2006

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305176

zbMATH Keywords

2-groupcategorial groupmeasurable categoryrepresentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Locally compact groups and their algebras (22D99) Measurable and nonmeasurable functions, sequences of measurable functions, modes of convergence (28A20)

Abstract: Using the theory of measurable categories developped by Yetter in work in preparation, we provide a notion of representations of 2-groups more well-suited to physically and geometrically interesting examples than that proposed in unpublished work of Barrett and Mackaay using 2-VECT of Kapranov and Voevodsky. Using this theory we sketch a 2-categorical approach to the state-sum model for Lorentzian quantum gravity proposed in by the authors in previous work and suggest state-integral constructions for 4-manifold invariants.

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