A Higher Stacky Perspective on Chern–Simons Theory
A Higher Stacky Perspective on Chern–Simons Theory
The first part of this text is a gentle exposition of some basic constructions and results in the extended prequantum theory of Chern-Simons-type gauge field theories. We explain in some detail how the action functional of ordinary 3d Chern-Simons theory is naturally localized ("extended", "multi-tiered") to a map on the …