Two-categorical bundles and their classifying spaces

DOI10.1017/IS012001012JKT181zbMATH Open1257.55009arXivmath/0612549OpenAlexW2963031951MaRDI QIDQ3143532FDOQ3143532

Authors: Nils A. Baas, Marcel Bökstedt, Tore August Kro 

Publication date: 30 November 2012

Published in: Journal of \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a 2-category 2C we associate a notion of a principal 2C-bundle. In case of the 2-category of 2-vector spaces in the sense of M.M. Kapranov and V.A. Voevodsky this gives the the 2-vector bundles of N.A. Baas, B.I. Dundas and J. Rognes. Our main result says that the geometric nerve of a good 2-category is a classifying space for the associated principal 2-bundles. In the process of proving this we develop a lot of powerful machinery which may be useful in further studies of 2-categorical topology. As a corollary we get a new proof of the classification of principal bundles. A calculation based on the main theorem shows that the principal 2-bundles associated to the 2-category of 2-vector spaces in the sense of J.C. Baez and A.S. Crans split, up to concordance, as two copies of ordinary vector bundles. When 2C is a cobordism type 2-category we get a new notion of cobordism-bundles which turns out to be classified by the Madsen-Weiss spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612549

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaces2-categories2-bundlessimplicial spacesKan conditiongeometric nerve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Higher algebraic (K)-theory (19D99) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Enriched categories (over closed or monoidal categories) (18D20) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

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