Principal -bundles and smooth string group models

DOI10.1007/S00208-022-02462-0MaRDI QIDQ6047243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Severin Bunk

Publication date 7 September 2023

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12263

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) ((infty,1))-categories (quasi-categories, Segal spaces, etc.); (infty)-topoi, stable (infty)-categories (18N60) Loop spaces (55P35)

Abstract: We provide a general, homotopy-theoretic definition of string group models within an $infty$-category of smooth spaces, and we present new smooth models for the string group. Here, a smooth space is a presheaf of $infty$-groupoids on the category of cartesian spaces. The key to our definition and construction of smooth string group models is a version of the singular complex functor, which assigns to a smooth space an underlying ordinary space. We provide new characterisations of principal $infty$-bundles and group extensions in $infty$-topoi, building on work of Nikolaus, Schreiber, and Stevenson. These insights allow us to transfer the definition of string group extensions from the $infty$-category of spaces to the $infty$-category of smooth spaces. Finally, we consider smooth higher-categorical group extensions that arise as obstructions to the existence of equivariant structures on gerbes. We show that these extensions give rise to new smooth models for the string group, as recently conjectured in joint work with M"uller and Szabo.

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• String Principal Bundles and Courant Algebroids
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