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# Principal ∞-Bundles and Smooth String Group Models

```@inproceedings{Bunk2020PrincipalA,
title={Principal ∞-Bundles and Smooth String Group Models},
author={Severin Bunk},
year={2020}
}```
We provide a general, homotopy-theoretic definition of string group models within an ∞-category of smooth spaces, and we present new smooth models for the string group. Here, a smooth space is a presheaf of ∞-groupoids on the category of cartesian spaces. The key to our definition and construction of smooth string group models is a version of the singular complex functor, which assigns to a smooth space an underlying ordinary space. We provide new characterisations of principal ∞-bundles and…
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Simplicial presheaves on cartesian spaces provide a general notion of smooth spaces. There is a corresponding smooth version of the singular complex functor, which maps smooth spaces to simplicial
• Severin Bunk
• Mathematics
Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures
• 2022
Simplicial presheaves on cartesian spaces provide a general notion of smooth spaces. There is a corresponding smooth version of the singular complex functor, which maps smooth spaces to simplicial
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• Mathematics
• 2022
We construct a representation of the string 2-group on a 2-vector space, namely on the hyperfinite type III1 von Neumann algebra. We prove that associating this representation to the frame bundle of

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