The structure of double groupoids

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2008.11.003zbMATH Open1222.18004OpenAlexW2103539397MaRDI QIDQ1008752FDOQ1008752

Authors Sonia Natale, Nicolás Andruskiewitsch

Publication date 30 March 2009

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602497

abelian group bundles discrete double groupoid groupoid 2-cocycles groupoid factorizations

Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)

Abstract: We give a general description of the structure of a discrete double groupoid (with an extra, quite natural, filling condition) in terms of groupoid factorizations and groupoid 2-cocycles with coefficients in abelian group bundles. Our description goes as follows: To any double groupoid, we associate an abelian group bundle and a second double groupoid, its frame. The frame satisfies that every box is determined by its edges, and thus is called a `slim' double groupoid. In a first step, we prove that every double groupoid is obtained as an extension of its associated abelian group bundle by its frame. In a second, independent, step we prove that every slim double groupoid with filling condition is completely determined by a factorization of a certain canonically defined `diagonal' groupoid.

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