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The statement is true for Lie groups and principal bundles, with every principal bundle admitting a connection and I see no reason for the analogue result not to hold in the Lie $2$-group case but I can't find the precise statement anywhere. As a bonus question, given a Lie $n$-group $G$, do principal $G$ $n$-bundles always admit an $n$-connection?

What I am mainly concerned about is the case of the Lie $2$-group $G=String(k)$$G=\operatorname{String}(k)$ (bonus: the other $n$-groups appearing in the Whitehead tower of the orthogonal group).

The statement is true for Lie groups and principal bundles, with every principal bundle admitting a connection and I see no reason for the analogue result not to hold in the Lie $2$-group case but I can't find the precise statement anywhere. As a bonus question, given a Lie $n$-group $G$, do principal $G$ $n$-bundles always admit an $n$-connection?

What I am mainly concerned about is the case of the Lie $2$-group $G=String(k)$ (bonus: the other $n$-groups appearing in the Whitehead tower of the orthogonal group).

The statement is true for Lie groups and principal bundles, with every principal bundle admitting a connection and I see no reason for the analogue result not to hold in the Lie $2$-group case but I can't find the precise statement anywhere. As a bonus question, given a Lie $n$-group $G$, do principal $G$ $n$-bundles always admit an $n$-connection?

What I am mainly concerned about is the case of the Lie $2$-group $G=\operatorname{String}(k)$ (bonus: the other $n$-groups appearing in the Whitehead tower of the orthogonal group).

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Given a Lie $2$-group $G$ does every principal $G$ $2$-bundle admit a $2$-connection?

The statement is true for Lie groups and principal bundles, with every principal bundle admitting a connection and I see no reason for the analogue result not to hold in the Lie $2$-group case but I can't find the precise statement anywhere. As a bonus question, given a Lie $n$-group $G$, do principal $G$ $n$-bundles always admit an $n$-connection?

What I am mainly concerned about is the case of the Lie $2$-group $G=String(k)$ (bonus: the other $n$-groups appearing in the Whitehead tower of the orthogonal group).