G-gerbes, principal 2-group bundles and characteristic classes

DOI10.4310/JSG.2015.V13.N4.A6zbMATH Open1347.55014arXiv0801.1238MaRDI QIDQ283518FDOQ283518

Authors: Grégory Ginot, Mathieu Stiénon 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a Lie group and $GoAut(G)$ be the canonical group homomorphism induced by the adjoint action of a group on itself. We give an explicit description of a 1-1 correspondence between Morita equivalence classes of, on the one hand, principal 2-group $[GoAut(G)]$-bundles over Lie groupoids and, on the other hand, $G$-extensions of Lie groupoids (i.e. between principal $[GoAut(G)]$-bundles over differentiable stacks and $G$-gerbes over differentiable stacks). This approach also allows us to identify $G$-bound gerbes and $[Z(G)o1]$-group bundles over differentiable stacks, where $Z(G)$ is the center of $G$. We also introduce universal characteristic classes for 2-group bundles. For groupoid central $G$-extensions, we introduce Dixmier--Douady classes that can be computed from connection-type data generalizing the ones for bundle gerbes. We prove that these classes coincide with universal characteristic classes. As a corollary, we obtain further that Dixmier--Douady classes are integral.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1238

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebroid\(G\)-gerbesdouble vector bundlegeneralized morphismgroupoid \(G\)-extensionLie bialgebroidLie groupoidMorita morphismsprincipal Lie \(2\)-group bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

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