scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1143037

Publication date 16 February 1999

algebraized spaces Atiyah class connections on principal sheaves connections on projective limits connections on vector sheaves Lie sheaves of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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This paper is largely inspired by the ideas of A. Mallios in order to extend the classical framework of differential geometry to the purely algebraic and topological context of nonsmooth spaces. These research works are motivated by the interest of modern theoretical physics in the use of sheaf-theoretical methods. The first part concerns the basic notions of \(\mathbb{K}\)-algebraized spaces \((\mathbb{K}= \mathbb{R}, \mathbb{C})\), Lie sheaves of groups and principal sheaves locally isomorphic to Lie sheaves of groups. Then, the author defines connections on principal sheaves and discusses their relationship with other connections as connections on projective limits and connections on vector sheaves. He also proves that the infinitesimal connections on a principal fibre bundle \(P\) are in \(1:1\) correspondence with the sheaf-theoretical connections on the principal sheaf of the sections of \(P\). Finally, he shows that the existence of connections on a principal sheaf turns out to be equivalent to the vanishing of the Atiyah class of that principal sheaf.

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