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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
   • CommentTimeNov 1st 2018
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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexAdded a couple of recent references in condensed matter physics. <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/higher+gauge+field/12">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/higher+gauge+field/12">v12</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field">current</a>

   Added a couple of recent references in condensed matter physics.

   diff, v12, current

2. • CommentRowNumber2.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeAug 20th 2021
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexProdded by [arXiv:2108.05369](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05369) from a few days back, I am giving in and starting a list of references including the recent activity from pure string theorists on "2-group symmetries". For the moment I made it a new References-subsection [here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field#HigherGaugeTheoryOfTheGreenSchwarzMechanismReferences), but I guess I'll make this an `!include`-page, since it should also go to the entry *[[Green-Schwarz mechanism]]* and elsewhere. (I had been hesitant to start making this list, even after the topic started to take off with [arXiv:1802.04790](https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04790), since it is not so clear whether higher group/gauge theory as such is used by many of these authors, or whether they just got convinced to terminologically relabel higher degree Bianchi identities as reflecting "2-group symmetry". Some emails got exchanged on this point, but maybe it requires a conference meeting to sort this out in person. In any case, since, at the very least, the terminology keeps coming up more and more often now in stringy articles, we should have this reflected on the $n$Lab. But, for the time being, I'll refrain from adding any commentary with these references. Maybe later.) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/higher+gauge+field/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/higher+gauge+field/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field">current</a>

   Prodded by arXiv:2108.05369 from a few days back, I am giving in and starting a list of references including the recent activity from pure string theorists on “2-group symmetries”.

   For the moment I made it a new References-subsection here, but I guess I’ll make this an !include-page, since it should also go to the entry Green-Schwarz mechanism and elsewhere.

   (I had been hesitant to start making this list, even after the topic started to take off with arXiv:1802.04790, since it is not so clear whether higher group/gauge theory as such is used by many of these authors, or whether they just got convinced to terminologically relabel higher degree Bianchi identities as reflecting “2-group symmetry”. Some emails got exchanged on this point, but maybe it requires a conference meeting to sort this out in person. In any case, since, at the very least, the terminology keeps coming up more and more often now in stringy articles, we should have this reflected on the $n$Lab. But, for the time being, I’ll refrain from adding any commentary with these references. Maybe later.)

   diff, v13, current

3. • CommentRowNumber3.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeMar 8th 2023
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Igor Khavkine]], *Topology, rigid cosymmetries and linearization instability in higher gauge theories*, Annales Henri Poincaré **16** (2015) 255–288, &lbrack;[arXiv:1303.2406](https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2406), [doi:10.1007/s00023-014-0321-9](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-014-0321-9)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/higher+gauge+field/15">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/higher+gauge+field/15">v15</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Igor Khavkine, Topology, rigid cosymmetries and linearization instability in higher gauge theories, Annales Henri Poincaré 16 (2015) 255–288, [arXiv:1303.2406, doi:10.1007/s00023-014-0321-9]

   diff, v15, current

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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeJan 4th 2024
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer (here and in further related entries) to: * [[Luigi Alfonsi]], §2 in: *Higher geometry in physics*, in: *[[Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics 2nd ed]]* &lbrack;[arXiv:2312.07308](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07308)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/higher+gauge+field/17">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/higher+gauge+field/17">v17</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field">current</a>

   added pointer (here and in further related entries) to:

   • Luigi Alfonsi, §2 in: Higher geometry in physics, in: Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics 2nd ed [arXiv:2312.07308]

   diff, v17, current

5. • CommentRowNumber5.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2024
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexHave expanded a little the section *Examples* ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field#Examples), which was previously just a small list of links): Added a paragraph highlighting the distinction between higher gauge theories of Maxwell/Yang-Mills type on the one hand and of Chern-Simons theories on the other, and then added some words on "higher gauge theories of Maxwell type". <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/higher+gauge+field/20">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/higher+gauge+field/20">v20</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+gauge+field">current</a>

   Have expanded a little the section Examples (here, which was previously just a small list of links):

   Added a paragraph highlighting the distinction between higher gauge theories of Maxwell/Yang-Mills type on the one hand and of Chern-Simons theories on the other, and then added some words on “higher gauge theories of Maxwell type”.

   diff, v20, current