On the second cohomology group of a simplicial group (Q607283): Difference between revisions

Eilenberg and Mac Lane have shown that the second cohomology groups of path-connected topological spaces can be expressed in terms of their first two homotopy groups and their first Postnikov invariants. In this paper the author proves the analogous result for simplicial groups, using the theory of crossed module extensions of groups. Since simplicial groups form a model for path-connected spaces, this give a more algebraic proof for the result of Eilenberg and Mac Lane.