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Connections and curvings on lifting bundle gerbes

2001/07/31 by Kiyonori Gomi
Mathematics · #math.DG #msc:55R65 #msc:57R20 #msc:14F43

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published as J. London Math. Soc. (2) 67 (2003), no. 2, 510--526. · 18 pages, LaTeX; The definition of splitting is modified. Section 3 and 4 of the old version are united

arxiv created 2001/11/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We construct a connection and a curving on a bundle gerbe associated with lifting a structure group of a principal bundle to a central extension. The construction is based on certain structures on the bundle, i.e. connections and splittings. The Deligne cohomology class of the lifting bundle gerbe with the connection and with the curving coincides with the obstruction class of the lifting problem with these structures.

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