A construction of string 2-group models using a transgression-regression technique

DOI10.1090/CONM/584/11588zbMATH Open1317.53035arXiv1201.5052OpenAlexW1817800790MaRDI QIDQ5265425FDOQ5265425

Authors: Konrad Waldorf 

Publication date: 28 July 2015

Published in: Analysis, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we present a new construction of the string group that ends optionally in two different contexts: strict diffeological 2-groups or finite-dimensional Lie 2-groups. It is canonical in the sense that no choices are involved; all the data is written down and can be looked up (at least somewhere). The basis of our construction is the basic gerbe of Gawedzki-Reis and Meinrenken. The main new insight is that under a transgression-regression procedure, the basic gerbe picks up a multiplicative structure coming from the Mickelsson product over the loop group. The conclusion of the construction is a relation between multiplicative gerbes and 2-group extensions for which we use recent work of Schommer-Pries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5052

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zbMATH Keywords

finite-dimensional Lie 2-groupsstrict diffeological 2-groupsstring 2-group models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

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