Notes on 2-groupoids, 2-groups and crossed modules

Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-106

  Noohi, Behrang ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 group; 2 groupoid; 2 type; Crossed module; Homology; Homotopy; Lax 2 functors; Weak 2 functors

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447620212     PISSN: 15320073     EISSN: 15320081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/HHA.2007.v9.n1.a3     Document Type: Article

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