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Notes on Weak Units of Group-Like 1- and 2-Stacks

Algebraic Geometry 2015-10-01 v3 Algebraic Topology Category Theory

Abstract

The weak units of strict monoidal 1- and 2-categories are already defined. In this paper, we define them for group-like 1- and 2-stacks. We show that they form a contractible Picard 1- and 2-stack, respectively. We give their cohomological description which provides for these stacks a representation by complexes of sheaves of groups. Later, we extend the discussion to the monoidal case.

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@article{arxiv.1108.1922,
  title  = {Notes on Weak Units of Group-Like 1- and 2-Stacks},
  author = {Ettore Aldrovandi and Ahmet Emin Tatar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.1922},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, shorter proofs, discussions have been improved to non-commutative group-like case and then extended to monoidal case