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Double groupoid cohomology and extensions

K-Theory and Homology 2016-08-25 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We study extensions of double groupoids in the sense of \cite{AN2} and show some classical results of group theory extensions in the case of double groupoids. For it, given a double groupoid (B;V,H;P)(\mathcal{B}; \mathcal{V},\mathcal{H}; \mathcal{P}) \emph{acting} on an abelian group bundle KP\mathbf{K} \to \mathcal{P}, we introduce a cohomology double complex, in a similar way as was done in \cite{AN2} and we show that the extensions of F\mathcal{F} by K\mathbf{K} are classified by the total first cohomology group of the associated total complex. With the aim to extend the above results to the topological setting, following ideas of Deligne \cite{D} and Tu \cite{tu}, by means of simplicial methods, we introduce a \emph{sheaf cohomology} for topological double groupoids, generalizing the double groupoid cohomological in the discrete case, and we carry out in the topological setting the results obtained for discrete double groupoids.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06712,
  title  = {Double groupoid cohomology and extensions},
  author = {Jesús Alonso Ochoa Arango and Alejandro Tiraboschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06712},
  year   = {2016}
}
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