A Dold-Kan theorem for crossed complexes (Q1822606)

This paper introduces a generalization of constructions on simplicial groups to certain simplicial groupoids in order to obtain useful results. The author gives a generalized Dold-Kan theorem for crossed complexes. One has a homotopy preserving equivalence between the category of simplicial T-groupoids whose complex of objects is discrete and the category of crossed complexes over a groupoid (one writes T as ``thin'', the definitions of objects and categories involved being given in the preliminaries). The Dold-Kan functor is inverse to a generalized Moore complex functor (recall that the homotopy of a simplicial group is the homology of the associated Moore complex). Then those simplicial groupoids whose Moore complex is a crossed complex are precisely the T-groupoids. This work is continued in the paper reviewed below (see Zbl 0679.18006).