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Commutative classifying space for simplicial groups

Algebraic Topology 2026-01-06 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a simplicial analog of classifying spaces for commutativity which classify principal bundles with commutativity structure on their transition functions. Our construction W(τ,K)\overline W(\tau,K), which takes as input a simplicial group KK and a cosimplicial group τ\tau that encodes the additional structure such as commutativity, is a variation of the W\overline W-construction for simplicial groups. Our main result shows that the geometric realization of our W(τ,K)\overline W(\tau,K) is homotopy equivalent to the topological classifying space B(τ,K)B(\tau,|K|).

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@article{arxiv.2001.04052,
  title  = {Commutative classifying space for simplicial groups},
  author = {Cihan Okay and Pál Zsámboki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04052},
  year   = {2026}
}

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21 pages