Exact sequences of fibrations of crossed complexes, homotopy classification of maps, and nonabelian extensions of groups

zbMATH Open1191.18009arXiv0802.4357MaRDI QIDQ847572FDOQ847572

Authors: Ronald Brown 

Publication date: 17 February 2010

Published in: Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classifying space of a crossed complex generalises the construction of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces. We show how the theory of fibrations of crossed complexes allows the analysis of homotopy classes of maps from a free crossed complex to such a classifying space. This gives results on the homotopy classification of maps from a CW-complex to the classifying space of a crossed module and also, more generally, of a crossed complex whose homotopy groups vanish in dimensions between 1 and n. The results are analogous to those for the obstruction to an abstract kernel in group extension theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.4357

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zbMATH Keywords

homotopy classificationcrossed complexfibrations of crossed complexesnonabelian extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50) Postnikov systems, (k)-invariants (55S45) Classification of mappings in algebraic topology (55S37)

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