vector bundle, 2-vector bundle, (∞,1)-vector bundle
real, complex/holomorphic, quaternionic
group cohomology, nonabelian group cohomology, Lie group cohomology
cohomology with constant coefficients / with a local system of coefficients
differential cohomology
For a smooth group, and an abelian smooth group, a central extension of by is equivalently a homotopy fiber sequence of smooth groupoid moduli stacks of the form
Here is the smooth group cohomology cocycle that classifies the extension.
If here we allow the connected smooth groupoid by any smooth groupoid , then a homotopy fiber sequence of the form
exhibits as a central -extension of .
Equivalently, such a central extension is a -principal 2-bundle.
In traditional literature this is mostly considered for Lie groupoids. Specifically, for a Lie group and for the Cech groupoid of a good open cover of a smooth manifold , morphisms of smooth stacks are equivalently given by actual morphism of Lie groupoids , which are equivalently degree-2 -cocycles in the Cech cohomology of . The corresponding incarnation of the -principal 2-bundle classified by this is known as the -bundle gerbe over .
A central extension of a Lie groupoid induces a twisted groupoid convolution algebra. The corresponding operator K-theory is the twisted K-theory of the differentiable stack of the base groupoid. See at KK-theory for more on this.
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