Wednesday, January 22 |
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Jeffrey Morton (SUNY Buffalo State) Title: "Higher-Categorical Symmetries and Transport Functors in Higher Gauge Theory" Room: MC 108 Abstract: Higher Gauge Theory (HGT) studies categorical analogs of constructions in the geometry of connections on bundles. In this talk, I will describe an HGT analog of a phenomenon that occurs in gauge theory: a groupoid of such connections arises both as a category of functors and also from a group action. I will describe a 2-categorical analog of this phenomenon, showing a relation between global and local symmetry in categorical geometry. |
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