Submitted:
26 September 2026
Posted:
30 September 2026
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Abstract
We develop a framework for bitopological gerbes on differentiable stacks by combining the theory of bitopological stacks with the groupoid-theoretic theory of differentiable stacks and gerbes. The underlying geometric object is a bitopological space (X, T1, T2) together with a differentiable groupoid presentation carrying two compatible topological structures. A bitopological gerbe is described by a pair of gerbes G1 and G2, associated with the two topologies, together with an equivalence Φ over a common refinement. We introduce the corresponding notion of a bitopological S1-gerbe, formulate its groupoid version in terms of pairs of S1-central extensions, and study compatibility, pullbacks, Morita invariance, connections, curvings, and Dixmier–Douady classes. The resulting characteristic data naturally take values in a fiber product of degree-three cohomology groups. We prove that the diagonal case T1 = T2 recovers the ordinary theory of S1-gerbes on differentiable stacks. Thus the present construction provides a genuine two-topology extension of the usual stack-theoretic gerbe theory.
Keywords:
bitopological spaces
; bitopological stacks
; differentiable stacks
; gerbes
; S1-gerbes
; Lie groupoids
; central extensions
; Dixmier–Douady classes
; Morita equivalence
; common refinements
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