Higher groupoid bundles, higher spaces, and self-dual tensor field equations
From MaRDI portal
Publication:2833141
DOI10.1002/PROP.201600031zbMATH Open1349.81138arXiv1604.01639OpenAlexW3126116818MaRDI QIDQ2833141FDOQ2833141
Authors: Branislav Jurčo, Christian Sämann, Martin Wolf 
Publication date: 16 November 2016
Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We develop a description of higher gauge theory with higher groupoids as gauge structure from first principles. This approach captures ordinary gauge theories and gauged sigma models as well as their categorifications on a very general class of (higher) spaces comprising presentable differentiable stacks, as e.g. orbifolds. We start off with a self-contained review on simplicial sets as models of -categories. We then discuss principal bundles in terms of simplicial maps and their homotopies. We explain in detail a differentiation procedure, suggested by Severa, that maps higher groupoids to -algebroids. Generalising this procedure, we define connections for higher groupoid bundles. As an application, we obtain six-dimensional superconformal field theories via a Penrose-Ward transform of higher groupoid bundles over a twistor space. This construction reduces the search for non-Abelian self-dual tensor field equations in six dimensions to a search for the appropriate (higher) gauge structure. The treatment aims to be accessible to theoretical physicists.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01639
Recommendations
Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91)
Cites Work
- Title not available (Why is that?)
- Algebraic structures on parallel M2 branes
- Integrability of Lie brackets
- Integration of Lie 2-algebras and their morphisms
- Lie theory for nilpotent \(L_{\infty}\)-algebras
- Rational homotopy theory
- Complex Analytic Connections in Fibre Bundles
- Integrating -algebras
- From double Lie groupoids to local Lie 2-groupoids
- Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)
- Čech cocycles for differential characteristic classes: an \(\infty \)-Lie theoretic construction
- Non-abelian tensor multiplet equations from twistor space
- Differential geometry of gerbes
- Semistrict higher gauge theory
- 4-D semistrict higher Chern-Simons theory. I
- AKSZ models of semistrict higher gauge theory
- A generalised Kerr-Robinson theorem
- Six-dimensional superconformal field theories from principal 3-bundles over twistor space
- Multiple M5-branes, string 2-connections, and 7d nonabelian Chern-Simons theory
- A higher Chern-Weil derivation of AKSZ \(\sigma \)-models
- Characteristic classes associated to Q-bundles
- General Yang-Mills type gauge theories for \(p\)-form gauge fields: from physics-based ideas to a mathematical framework \textit{or} from Bianchi identities to twisted Courant algebroids
- Lie algebroid morphisms, Poisson sigma models, and off-shell closed gauge symmetries
- An invitation to higher gauge theory
- Homotopy invariant algebraic structures on topological spaces
- The Structure of Supermanifolds
- n-Groupoids and Stacky Groupoids
- Central extensions of smooth 2-groups and a finite-dimensional string 2-group
- Nonabelian bundle gerbes, their differential geometry and gauge theory
- On twistors and conformal field theories from six dimensions
- Quasi-categories and Kan complexes
- Kan replacement of simplicial manifolds
- Minimal curves in six dimensions
- Survey article: an elementary illustrated introduction to simplicial sets
- Conformal field theories in six-dimensional twistor space
- Weak complicial sets. I: Basic homotopy theory
- Higher-dimensional algebra. III: \(n\)-categories and the algebra of opetopes
- Higher gauge theory with string 2-groups
- CROSSED MODULE BUNDLE GERBES; CLASSIFICATION, STRING GROUP AND DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
- Title not available (Why is that?)
- Simplicial homotopy theory
- The Wess-Zumino-Witten term of the M5-brane and differential cohomotopy
- 2-nerves for bicategories
- A Penrose transform for the twistor space of an even dimensional conformally flat Riemannian manifold
- Nonstrict notions of \(n\)-category and \(n\)-groupoid via multisimplical sets
- Bigroupoid 2-torsors
- A new formulation of higher parallel transport in higher gauge theory
- On 3-gauge transformations, 3-curvatures, and Gray-categories
- Super-Lie n-algebra extensions, higher WZW models and super-p-branes with tensor multiplet fields
- Basic Category Theory
- Differential gorms and worms
- A Lie based 4-dimensional higher Chern-Simons theory
- Higher Poincaré lemma and integrability
Cited In (15)
- Topological invariant of 4-manifolds based on a 3-group
- Adjusted parallel transport for higher gauge theories
- Atiyah sequence and gauge transformations of a principal 2-bundle over a Lie groupoid
- Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory as higher Chern-Simons theory
- Global 3-group symmetry and 't Hooft anomalies in axion electrodynamics
- Towards an M5-brane model. I: A 6d superconformal field theory
- Higher gauge theory with string 2-groups
- Operational total space theory of principal 2-bundles II: 2-connections and 1- and 2-gauge transformations
- Operational total space theory of principal 2-bundles I: operational geometric framework
- Semistrict higher gauge theory
- ‐Algebras, the BV Formalism, and Classical Fields
- Higher Structures in M‐Theory
- Higher Structures, Self‐Dual Strings and 6d Superconformal Field Theories
- Algebraic formulation of higher gauge theory
- The non-abelian self-dual string
This page was built for publication: Higher groupoid bundles, higher spaces, and self-dual tensor field equations
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2833141)
