Dold-Kan correspondence and differential forms (Q1375967)

The Dold-Kan correspondence is an equivalence from the category of simplicial abelian groups to the category of positively graded chain complexes. In this paper the author first constructs an inverse, using antisymmetric differential forms. He then gives variants of the constructions, using other sorts of differential forms; the chain complexes are larger, but they enable one to describe cup products and cohomology operations. In particular, he shows that noncommutative differential forms give a correspondence with good equivariance properties.