Smooth functors vs. differential forms
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Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Abstract manifolds and fiber bundles (category-theoretic aspects) (18F15)
Abstract: We establish a relation between smooth 2-functors defined on the path 2-groupoid of a smooth manifold and differential forms on this manifold. This relation can be understood as a part of a dictionary between fundamental notions from category theory and differential geometry. We show that smooth 2-functors appear in several fields, namely as connections on (non-abelian) gerbes, as curvatures of smooth functors and as critical points in BF theory. We demonstrate further that our dictionary provides a powerful tool to discuss the transgression of geometric objects to loop spaces.
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