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A global perspective to connections on principal 2-bundles

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For a strict Lie 2-group, we develop a notion of Lie 2-algebra-valued differential forms on Lie groupoids, furnishing a differential graded-commutative Lie algebra equipped with an adjoint action of the Lie 2-group and a pullback operation along Morita equivalences between Lie groupoids. Using this notion, we define connections on principal 2-bundles as Lie 2-algebra-valued 1-forms on the total space Lie groupoid of the 2-bundle, satisfying a condition in complete analogy to connections on ordinary principal bundles. We carefully treat various notions of curvature, and prove a classification result by the non-abelian differential cohomology of Breen-Messing. This provides a consistent, global perspective to higher gauge theory.

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2026 2 2019 1

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Adjusted connections on non-abelian bundle gerbes

math.DG · 2026-04-27 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The work constructs adjusted connections on non-abelian bundle gerbes classified by Saemann's adjusted non-abelian differential cohomology and provides a new coordinate-free version of Tellez-Dominguez' lifting theorem to abelian 2-gerbes.

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