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Classifying theory for simplicial parametrized groups

Algebraic Topology 2016-04-29 v2

Abstract

In this paper we describe a classifying theory for families of simplicial topological groups. If BB is a topological space and GG is a simplicial topological group, then we can consider the non-abelian cohomology H(B,G)H(B,G) of BB with coefficients in GG. If GG is a topological group, thought of as a constant simplicial group, then the set H(B,G)H(B,G) is the set of isomorphism classes of principal GG bundles, or GG torsors, on BB. For more general simplicial groups GG, the set H(B,G)H(B,G) parametrizes the set of equivalence classes of higher GG torsors on BB. In this paper we consider a more general setting where GG is replaced by a simplicial group in the category of spaces over BB. The main result of the paper is that under suitable conditions on BB and GG there is an isomorphism between H(B,G)H(B,G) and the set of isomorphism classes of fiberwise principal bundles on BB, with structure group G|G| given by the fiberwise geometric realization of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2461,
  title  = {Classifying theory for simplicial parametrized groups},
  author = {Danny Stevenson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2461},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, uses xy-pic; v2 added missing fibrancy condition, corrected minor typos and updated references

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