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The general linear 2-groupoid

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

When working with Lie groupoids, representations up to homotopy arise naturally, and they are useful, for instance, to make sense of the adjoint representation. The idea behind them is to use graded vector bundles and allow non-associativity. We discuss the symmetries of a graded vector bundle and show that, in the 2-term case, they can be regarded as a Lie 2-groupoid. We show that the nerve of a Lie 2-groupoid is a simplicial manifold, and use this construction to realize 2-term representations up to homotopy as pseudo-functors. Based in a joint work with D. Stefani.

Mathematics; Differential geometry; Topological groups, lie groups

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Author affiliation: Universidade Federal Fluminense

2017-10-15

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63289

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/