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Parallel transport in principal 2-bundles

Differential Geometry 2019-05-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A nice differential-geometric framework for (non-abelian) higher gauge theory is provided by principal 2-bundles, i.e. categorified principal bundles. Their total spaces are Lie groupoids, local trivializations are kinds of Morita equivalences, and connections are Lie-2-algebra-valued 1-forms. In this article, we construct explicitly the parallel transport of a connection on a principal 2-bundle. Parallel transport along a path is a Morita equivalence between the fibres over the end points, and parallel transport along a surface is an intertwiner between Morita equivalences. We prove that our constructions fit into the general axiomatic framework for categorified parallel transport and surface holonomy.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08542,
  title  = {Parallel transport in principal 2-bundles},
  author = {Konrad Waldorf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08542},
  year   = {2019}
}

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60 pages

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