Holonomy and parallel transport in the differential geometry of the space of loops and the groupoid of generalized gauge transformations
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Authors: Carlo A. Rossi 
Publication date: 15 January 2004
Abstract: The motivation for this paper stems cite{CR} from the need to construct explicit isomorphisms of (possibly nontrivial) principal -bundles on the space of loops or, more generally, of paths in some manifold , over which I consider a fixed principal bundle ; the aforementioned bundles are then pull-backs of w.r.t. evaluation maps at different points. The explicit construction of these isomorphisms between pulled-back bundles relies on the notion of {em parallel transport}. I introduce and discuss extensively at this point the notion of {em generalized gauge transformation between (a priori) distinct principal -bundles over the same base }; one can see immediately that the parallel transport can be viewed as a generalized gauge transformation for two special kind of bundles on the space of loops or paths; at this point, it is possible to generalize the previous arguments for more general pulled-back bundles. Finally, I discuss how flatness of the reference connection, w.r.t. which I consider holonomy and parallel transport, is related to horizontality of the associated generalized gauge transformation.
Connections (general theory) (53C05) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)
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