Differential geometry of gerbes and differential forms

zbMATH Open1226.53023arXiv0802.1833MaRDI QIDQ2997013FDOQ2997013

Authors: Lawrence Breen 

Publication date: 6 May 2011

Abstract: We discuss certain aspects of the combinatorial approach to the differential geometry of non-abelian gerbes, due to W. Messing and the author (arXiv:math.AG/0106083), and give a more direct derivation of the associated cocycle equations. This leads us to a more restrictive definition of the corresponding coboundary relations. We also show that the diagrammatic proofs of certain local curving and curvature equations may be replaced by computations with differential forms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1833

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zbMATH Keywords

gerbeconnective structureČech-de Rham cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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