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Principal 2-bundles and quotient 2-stacks

Category Theory 2024-03-15 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We generalize principal bundles and quotient stacks to the two-categorical context of bisites. We introduce a notion of principal 2-bundle that makes sense for a 2-category with finite flexible limits, endowed with a bitopology. We then use principal 2-bundles to explicitly construct quotient-pre-2-stacks, which are the analogues of quotient stacks one dimension higher. In order to perform this construction, we prove that principal 2-bundles are closed under iso-comma objects and we restrict ourselves to (2,1)-categories. Finally, we prove that, if the bisite is subcanonical and the underlying (2,1)-category satisfies some mild conditions, quotient pre-2-stacks are 2-stacks.

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@article{arxiv.2403.09379,
  title  = {Principal 2-bundles and quotient 2-stacks},
  author = {Elena Caviglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09379},
  year   = {2024}
}
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