Twisted-product categorical bundles

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2015.08.005MaRDI QIDQ893245zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saikat Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri, Ambar N. Sengupta

Publication date 13 November 2015

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04427

zbMATH Keywords

principal bundlescategorical geometry2-groupscategorical groupstwisted-product categorical bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of groups (20C99)

Abstract: Categorical bundles provide a natural framework for gauge theories involving multiple gauge groups. Unlike the case of traditional bundles there are distinct notions of triviality, and hence also of local triviality, for categorical bundles. We study categorical principal bundles that are product bundles in the categorical sense, developing the relationship between functorial sections of such bundles and trivializations. We construct functorial cocycles with values in categorical groups using a suitable family of locally defined functions on the object space of the base category. Categorical product bundles being too rigid to give a widely applicable model for local triviality, we introduce the notion of a twisted-product categorical bundle. We relate such bundles to decorated categorical bundles that contain more information, specifically parallel transport data.

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