ON 2-HOLONOMY

Abstract

AbstractWe construct a cycle in higher Hochschild homology associated to the two-dimensional torus which represents 2-holonomy of a nonabelian gerbe in the same way as the ordinary holonomy of a principal G-bundle gives rise to a cycle in ordinary Hochschild homology. This is done using the connection 1-form of Baez–Schreiber. A crucial ingredient in our work is the possibility to arrange that in the structure crossed module $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}:\mathfrak{h}\rightarrow \mathfrak{g}$ of the principal 2-bundle, the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{h}$ is abelian, up to equivalence of crossed modules.