Bundle 2-gerbes

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2001-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/math/0106018v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

27 pages

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We make the category BGrb_M of bundle gerbes on a manifold M into a 2-category by providing 2-cells in the form of transformations of bundle gerbe morphisms. This description of BGrb_M as a 2-category is used to define the notion of a bundle 2-gerbe. To every bundle 2-gerbe on M is associated a class in H^4(M;Z). We define the notion of a bundle 2-gerbe connection and show how this leads to a closed, integral differential 4-form on M which represents the image in real cohomology of the class in H^4(M;Z). Some examples of bundle 2-gerbes are discussed, including the bundle 2-gerbe associated to a principal G-bundle P \to M. It is shown that the class in H^4(M;Z) associated to this bundle 2-gerbe coincides with the first Pontryagin class of P --- this example was previously considered from the point of view of 2-gerbes by Brylinski and McLaughlin.

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