From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6883 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Porter Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Simplicial groups are Kan Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:49:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Tim Porter NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1;DelSp="Yes";format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315875064 6907 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2011 00:51:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories list To: Michael Barr Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Sep 13 02:50:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3HDG-0008TQ-Vu for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:39937) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R3HC0-000851-86; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:49:40 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3HBz-0003kG-H1 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:49:39 -0300 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6883 Archived-At: Quoting Michael Barr : > I know that is a theorem, due I think to John Moore. Can anyone give me a > pointer to the original article. > > Michael > > Dear All, In Curtis's survey article he gives Kan's paper: A combinatorial description of homotopy groups, Ann. Math. 67(1958)288 - 312. Actually I believe that the algorithm that Curtis gives does not work. That in Peter May's book does. Tim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]