can anyone help me with finding the appropriate notion of a gauge transformation on a gerbe (abelian or not)? I would be interested in particular in lifting gerbes. I tried to find it several times but did not succeed. My guess would be to define it as a vertical 2-bundle automorphismsm of the corresponding 2-bundle, but I did not find this mentioned anywhere... Accordingly, gauge transformations would build up a 2-group rather than a group.
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Christoph Wockel wrote: > can anyone help me with finding the appropriate notion of a gauge > transformation on a gerbe (abelian or not)? I would be interested in > particular in lifting gerbes. I tried to find it several times but did > not succeed. My guess would be to define it as a vertical 2-bundle > automorphismsm of the corresponding 2-bundle, but I did not find this > mentioned anywhere... Accordingly, gauge transformations would build > up a 2-group rather than a group.
Higher Gauge theory is extensively discussed at the n-category cafe by John Baez and Urs Schreiber, see see http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/