Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40) Abstract manifolds and fiber bundles (category-theoretic aspects) (18F15) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)
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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