Tensor products and homotopies for \(\omega\)-groupoids and crossed complexes (Q1089958)

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Tensor products and homotopies for \(\omega\)-groupoids and crossed complexes
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    Tensor products and homotopies for \(\omega\)-groupoids and crossed complexes (English)
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    1987
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    In his study of homotopy groups, additional structures on relative homotopy groups were observed by \textit{J. H. C. Whitehead} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 55, 453-496 (1949; Zbl 0040.388)]. These structures are built up out of crossed modules and give rise to the concept of crossed complexes. The authors have shown previously that crossed complexes satisfy a Van Kampen theorem which generalizes the relative Hurewicz theorem. In this paper the authors show that the category of crossed complexes over a groupoid has a symmetrical monoidal closed structure. This is built up from morphisms of crossed complexes, chain homotopies between them and higher homotopies. This is exposed by using cubical sets, as opposed to simplicial sets. Then the tensor product is introduced.
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    crossed modules
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    crossed complexes
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    category of crossed complexes over a groupoid
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    symmetrical monoidal closed structure
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    higher homotopies
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    cubical sets
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    tensor product
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