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Parallel transport on a Lie 2-group bundle over a Lie groupoid along Haefliger paths

Differential Geometry 2023-09-12 v1 Mathematical Physics Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

We prove a Lie 2-group torsor version of the well-known one-one correspondence between fibered categories and pseudofunctors. Consequently, we obtain a weak version of the principal Lie group bundle over a Lie groupoid. The correspondence also enables us to extend a particular class of principal 2-bundles to be defined over differentiable stacks. We show that the differential geometric connection structures introduced in the authors' previous work, combine nicely with the underlying fibration structure of a principal 2-bundle over a Lie groupoid. This interrelation allows us to derive a notion of parallel transport in the framework of principal 2-bundles over Lie groupoids along a particular class of Haefliger paths. The corresponding parallel transport functor is shown to be smooth. We apply our results to examine the parallel transport on an associated VB-groupoid.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05355,
  title  = {Parallel transport on a Lie 2-group bundle over a Lie groupoid along Haefliger paths},
  author = {Saikat Chatterjee and Adittya Chaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05355},
  year   = {2023}
}