In work inspired by topological quantum field theory, Kapranov and Voevodsky found it useful to “categorify” the concept of a finite-dimensional vector space and invent the concept of “2-vector space”. In simple terms, this amounts to replacing vectors – viewed as lists of numbers – by “2-vectors”, which are lists of vector spaces.

For purposes of analysis it is important to go further and find a good notion of “2-Hilbert space”. For example, just as the category of finite-dimensional representations of a finite group is a 2-vector space, the category of unitary representations of a Lie group should be a 2-Hilbert space. We sketch some attempts to define 2-Hilbert spaces using measurable fields of Hilbert spaces.

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