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From: Ronnie Brown <r.brown@bangor.ac.uk>
Groupoids and Crossed Objects in Algebraic Topology
Ronald Brown
Notes for Lectures at the Summer School on the `Foundations of Algebraic
Topology', Grenoble, June 14 -July 5, 1997 (71 pages).
Abstract:
The notes concentrate on the background, intuition, proof and
applications of the 2-dimensional Van Kampen Theorem
(for the fundamental crossed module of a pair), with
sketches of extensions to higher dimensions.
One of the points stressed is how the extension from
groups to groupoids leads to an extension from the abelian
homotopy groups to non abelian higher dimensional
generalisations of the fundamental group, as was sought
by the topologists of the early part of this century.
This links with J.H.C. Whitehead's efforts to extend
combinatorial group theory to higher dimensions
in terms of combinatorial homotopy theory, and which
analogously motivated his simple homotopy theory.
Available from
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/brownpr.html
(gzipped postscript).
Ronnie Brown
Prof R. Brown, School of Mathematics,
University of Wales, Bangor
Dean St., Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT, United Kingdom
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