Homotopy types of strict 3-groupoids

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Authors Carlos Simpson

Published in arXiv

Abstract: We look at strict $n$-groupoids and show that if $Re$ is any realization functor from the category of strict $n$-groupoids to the category of spaces satisfying a minimal property of compatibility with homotopy groups, then there is no strict $n$-groupoid $G$ such that $Re(G)$ is the $n$-type of $S^2$ (for $ngeq3$). At the end we speculate on how one might fix this problem by introducing a notion of ``snucategory, a strictly associative $n$-category with only weak units.

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