From Groups to Groupoids: a Brief Survey

DOI10.1112/blms/19.2.113zbMath0612.20032OpenAlexW1995530003WikidataQ56608261 ScholiaQ56608261MaRDI QIDQ3752573

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/19.2.113

zbMATH Keywords

classifying space fundamental groupoid category of groupoids Van Kampen theorem homotopy theory of groupoids unions of spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Other topological algebraic systems and their representations (22A30) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02)

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