Principal bundle groupoids, their gauge group and their nerve
Alfonso Garmendia, Sylvie Paycha

TL;DR
This paper explores the relationship between principal bundle groupoids and bundle gerbes over groupoids, establishing functorial correspondences and analyzing their nerves to understand their transformations and structures.
Contribution
It generalizes bundle gerbes to groupoids, constructs functorial correspondences between PB groupoids and bundle gerbes, and analyzes their nerves as simplicial objects.
Findings
Established a functorial correspondence between PB groupoids and bundle gerbes over groupoids.
Constructed bundle gerbes from PB groupoids and vice versa, including trivial base cases.
Described the nerves of PB groupoids and their partial quotients as simplicial objects.
Abstract
We consider groupoids in the category of principal bundles, which we call principal bundles (PB) groupoids. Inspired by work by Th. Nikolaus and K. Waldorf, we generalise bundle gerbes over manifolds to bundle gerbes over groupoids and discuss a functorial correspondence between PB groupoids and bundle gerbes over groupoids. From a PB groupoid over a fibre product groupoid, we build a bundle gerbe over another fibre product groupoid. Conversely, from a bundle gerbe over a Lie groupoid, we build a PB groupoid. It has a trivial base and from any PB groupoid with trivial base, we build a bundle gerbe over a Lie groupoid. In that case, the resulting bundle gerbe is isomorphic as a groupoid to a partial quotient of the PB groupoid. We describe the nerves of PB groupoids and their partial quotients, which are simplicial objects in the category of principal bundles. Applying this construction…
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TopicsOphthalmology and Eye Disorders
