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Connections on decorated path space bundles

Differential Geometry 2015-02-20 v1 Mathematical Physics Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

For a principal bundle PMP\to M equipped with a connection Aˉ{\bar A}, we study an infinite dimensional bundle PAˉdecP{\mathcal P}^{\rm dec}_{\bar A}P over the space of paths on MM, with the points of PAˉdecP{\mathcal P}^{\rm dec}_{\bar A}P being horizontal paths on PP decorated with elements of a second structure group. We construct parallel transport processes on such bundles and study holonomy bundles in this setting. We explain the relationship with categorical geometry and explore the notion of categorical connections on categorical principal bundles in a concrete differential geometric way.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05419,
  title  = {Connections on decorated path space bundles},
  author = {Saikat Chatterjee and Amitabha Lahiri and Ambar N. Sengupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05419},
  year   = {2015}
}

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53pp, 3 figs

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