Non-abelian higher gauge theory and categorical bundle
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Publication:335853
DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2016.09.011zbMATH Open1353.81095arXiv1202.2280OpenAlexW1942918550MaRDI QIDQ335853FDOQ335853
Authors: David Viennot 
Publication date: 2 November 2016
Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A gauge theory is associated with a principal bundle endowed with a connection permitting to define horizontal lifts of paths. The horizontal lifts of surfaces cannot be defined into a principal bundle structure. An higher gauge theory is an attempt to generalize the bundle structure in order to describe horizontal lifts of surfaces. A such attempt is particularly difficult for the non-abelian case. Some structures have been proposed to realize this goal (twisted bundle, gerbes with connection, bundle gerbe, 2-bundle). Each of them uses a category in place of the total space manifold of the usual principal bundle structure. Some of them replace also the structure group by a category (more precisely a Lie crossed module viewed as a category). But the base space remains still a simple manifold (possibly viewed as a trivial category with only identity arrows). We propose a new principal categorical bundle structure, with a Lie crossed module as structure groupoid, but with a base space belonging to a bigger class of categories (which includes non-trivial categories), that we call affine 2-spaces. We study the geometric structure of the categorical bundles built on these categories (which is a more complicated structure than the 2-bundles) and the connective structures on these bundles. Finally we treat an example interesting for quantum dynamics which is associated with the Bloch wave operator theory.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2280
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