Bundle 2-Gerbes

DOI10.1112/S0024611503014357zbMATH Open1055.18003arXivmath/0106018OpenAlexW2592082554MaRDI QIDQ4465101FDOQ4465101

Authors: Danny Stevenson 

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We make the category BGrb_M of bundle gerbes on a manifold M into a 2-category by providing 2-cells in the form of transformations of bundle gerbe morphisms. This description of BGrb_M as a 2-category is used to define the notion of a bundle 2-gerbe. To every bundle 2-gerbe on M is associated a class in H^4(M;Z). We define the notion of a bundle 2-gerbe connection and show how this leads to a closed, integral differential 4-form on M which represents the image in real cohomology of the class in H^4(M;Z). Some examples of bundle 2-gerbes are discussed, including the bundle 2-gerbe associated to a principal G-bundle P o M. It is shown that the class in H^4(M;Z) associated to this bundle 2-gerbe coincides with the first Pontryagin class of P --- this example was previously considered from the point of view of 2-gerbes by Brylinski and McLaughlin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106018

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zbMATH Keywords

bigroupoidbundle 2-gerbesČech classesgluing lawssimplicial bundle gerbe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

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