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Central Extensions of Gerbes

Algebraic Geometry 2010-02-18 v4 Category Theory

Abstract

We introduce the notion of central extension of gerbes on a topological space. We then show that there are obstruction classes to lifting objects and isomorphisms in a central extension. We also discuss pronilpotent gerbes. These results are used in a subsequent paper to study twisted deformation quantization on algebraic varieties.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0083,
  title  = {Central Extensions of Gerbes},
  author = {Amnon Yekutieli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0083},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

36 pages. Many improvements, Theorem 4.6 corrected

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