Rigid models for 2-gerbes I: Chern-Simons geometry
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arXiv2209.05521MaRDI QIDQ6410486FDOQ6410486
Authors: David Michael Roberts, Raymond F. Vozzo 
Publication date: 12 September 2022
Abstract: Motivated by the problem of constructing explicit geometric string structures, we give a rigid model for bundle 2-gerbes, and define connective structures thereon. This model is designed to make explicit calculations easier, for instance in applications to physics. To compare to the existing definition, we give a functorial construction of a bundle 2-gerbe as in the literature from our rigid model, including with connections. As an example we prove that the Chern--Simons bundle 2-gerbe from the literature, with its connective structure, can be rigidified -- it arises, up to isomorphism in the strongest possible sense, from a rigid bundle 2-gerbe with connective structure via this construction. Further, our rigid version of 2-gerbe trivialisation (with connections) gives rise to trivialisations (with connections) of bundle 2-gerbes in the usual sense, and as such can be used to describe geometric string structures.
Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)
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