English

Higher path groupoids and the holonomy of formal power series connections

Algebraic Topology 2025-07-01 v1 Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Building on ideas of Kohno, we develop a framework for the construction of higher holonomy functors via the transport of formal power series connections. Using these techniques, we obtain functors from the path groupoid, the path 2-groupoid, and the path 3-groupoid of a manifold. As an application, we construct a Gray functor from the path 3-groupoid of the configuration space of mm points in Rn\mathbb{R}^n for n4n\geqslant 4.

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@article{arxiv.2506.23880,
  title  = {Higher path groupoids and the holonomy of formal power series connections},
  author = {Matthew Cellot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23880},
  year   = {2025}
}