Adding inverses to diagrams encoding algebraic structures (Q951431)

The author showed in a previous work [\textit{J. E. Bergner}, Simplicial monoids and Segal categories. Categories in algebra, geometry and mathematical physics. Conference and workshop in honor of Ross Street's 60th birthday, Sydney and Canberra, Australia, July 11--16/July 18--21, 2005. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). Contemporary Mathematics 431, 59--83 (2007; Zbl 1134.18006)] that certain diagrams of spaces are simplicial monoids. In this paper, focusing on diagrams of spaces which give one of the spaces the structure of a monoid, the argument is modified to obtain a diagram encoding the structure of a simplicial group rather than a simplicial monoid. As the construction for simplicial monoids generalizes to the many object case of simplicial categories, models for simplicial groupoids can be obtained as well. Finally, Segal's argument [\textit{G. Segal}, Topology 13, 293--312 (1974; Zbl 0284.55016)] for a model for simplicial abelian monoids is modified to obtain a model for simplicial abelian groups.