nLab Chen connection

References

  • Kuo Tsai Chen, Smooth maps, pullback path spaces, connections, and torsions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 297 (1986) 617–627 (web)

  • T. Kohno, Higher holonomy maps for hyperplane arrangements, European J. Math. 6, 905–927 (2020) doi

We develop a method to construct representations of the homotopy 2-groupoid of a manifold as a 2-category by means of Chen’s formal homology connections. As an application we describe 2-holonomy maps for hyperplane arrangements and discuss representations of the category of braid cobordisms.

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