Differentiable Categories, gerbes and G-structures
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Publication:6209840
arXiv0806.1357MaRDI QIDQ6209840FDOQ6209840
Authors: Tsemo Aristide 
Publication date: 8 June 2008
Abstract: The theories of strings and -branes have motivated the development of non Abelian cohomology techniques in differential geometry, on the purpose to find a geometric interpretation of characteristic classes. The spaces studied here, like orbifolds are not often smooth. In classical differential geometry, non smooth spaces appear also naturally, for example in the theory of foliations, the space of leaves can be an orbifold with singularities. The scheme to study these structures is identical: classical tools used in differential geometry, like connections, curvature are adapted. The purpose of this paper is to present the notion of differential category which unifies all these points of view. This enables us to provide a geometric interpretation of 5-characteristic classes, and to interpret classical problems which appear in the theory of -structures by using gerbes.
Connections (general theory) (53C05) Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20)
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