What does the classifying space of a category classify?

DOI10.4310/HHA.2005.V7.N1.A10zbMATH Open1093.57012OpenAlexW2025968844MaRDI QIDQ2575114FDOQ2575114

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/

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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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