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The division map of principal bundles with groupoid structure and generalized gauge transformations

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Motivated by the computations done in \cite{C1}, where I introduced and discussed what I called the groupoid of generalized gauge transformations, viewed as a groupoid over the objects of the category BunG,M\mathsf{Bun}_{G,M} of principal GG-bundles over a given manifold MM, I develop in this paper the same ideas for the more general case of {\em principal \calG\calG-bundles or principal bundles with structure groupoid \calG\calG}, where now \calG\calG is a Lie groupoid in the sense of \cite{Moer2}. Most of the concepts introduced in \cite{C1} can be translated almost verbatim in the framework of principal bundles with structure groupoid \calG\calG; in particular, the key r�le for the construction of generalized gauge transformations is again played by (the equivalent in the framework of principal bundles with groupoid structure of) the division map fPf_P. Of great importance are also the generalized conjugation in a groupoid and the concept of (twisted) equivariant maps between groupoid-spaces.

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@article{arxiv.math/0401182,
  title  = {The division map of principal bundles with groupoid structure and generalized gauge transformations},
  author = {C. A. Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0401182},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Some modifications of the introduction; retrieved a small subsection; added a new section concerning Hilsum-Skandalis morphisms and Hilsum-Skandalis generalized gauge transformations; added some citations