Band
المؤلف:
Brylinski, J
المصدر:
Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes, and Geometric Quantization. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1993.
الجزء والصفحة:
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6-5-2021
1984
Band
A band over a fixed topological space
is represented by a cover
,
, and for each
, a sheaf of groups
on
along with outer automorphisms
satisfying the cocycle conditions
and
. Here, restrictions of the cover
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The collection of all bands over the space
with respect to a single cover
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and
are two bands over
with respect to
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consists of outer automorphisms
compatible on overlaps so that
. The collection of all such bands and isomorphisms thereof forms a category.
The notion of band is essential to the study of gerbes (Moerdijk). In particular, for a gerbe
over a topological space
, one can choose an open cover
of
by open subsets
, and for each
, an object
which together form a sheaf of groups
on
. One can then consider a collection of sheaf isomorphisms
between any two groups
and
which forms a collection of well-defined outer automorphisms.
In some literature, an alternative definition of gerbe is used, thereby resulting in an even more specific definition of band. For example, the associated band of some gerbe
is sometimes assumed to be a sheaf of Lie groups
(Brylinski 1993), though such assumptions appear to be somewhat rare.
REFERENCES:
Brylinski, J. Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes, and Geometric Quantization. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1993.
Moerdijk, I. "Introduction to the Language of Stacks and Gerbes." 2002. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212266.
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