Flat principal 2-group bundles and flat string structures

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Berwick-Evans, Daniel, Cliff, Emily, Murray, Laura, Nakade, Apurva, Phillips, Emma
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866918160596205568
author Berwick-Evans, Daniel
Cliff, Emily
Murray, Laura
Nakade, Apurva
Phillips, Emma
author_facet Berwick-Evans, Daniel
Cliff, Emily
Murray, Laura
Nakade, Apurva
Phillips, Emma
contents For a weak 2-group, we construct a bicategory of flat 2-group bundles over differentiable stacks as a localization of a functor bicategory. This description is amenable to explicit geometric constructions. For example, we show that flat 2-group bundles can be described in terms of ordinary $G$-bundles together with a trivialization of a certain 2-gerbe. This specializes to a characterization of flat string structures on vector bundles over differentiable stacks.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2110_07571
institution arXiv
publishDate 2021
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Flat principal 2-group bundles and flat string structures
Berwick-Evans, Daniel
Cliff, Emily
Murray, Laura
Nakade, Apurva
Phillips, Emma
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
For a weak 2-group, we construct a bicategory of flat 2-group bundles over differentiable stacks as a localization of a functor bicategory. This description is amenable to explicit geometric constructions. For example, we show that flat 2-group bundles can be described in terms of ordinary $G$-bundles together with a trivialization of a certain 2-gerbe. This specializes to a characterization of flat string structures on vector bundles over differentiable stacks.
title Flat principal 2-group bundles and flat string structures
topic Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07571