What does the classifying space of a category classify?

DOI10.4310/HHA.2005.V7.N1.A10MaRDI QIDQ2575114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael S. Weiss

Publication date 5 December 2005

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://intlpress.com/hha/v7/n1/

zbMATH Keywords

Classifying spaceSheafCategoryRepresentable functor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Bar and cobar constructions (57T30)

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