On two-dimensional holonomy

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-04857-3zbMath1209.53038arXiv0710.4310MaRDI QIDQ3056564

João Faria Martins, R. F. Picken

Publication date: 12 November 2010

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4310

zbMATH Keywords

categorical groupcrossed moduletwo-dimensional holonomy2-bundlenon-Abelian gerbeWilson sphereWilson sphere non-Abelian gerbe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

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