Abstract. In this paper we prove that realizations of geometric nerves are classifying spaces for 2-categories. This result is particularized to strict monoidal categories and it is also used to obtain a generalization of Quillen's Theorem A.
This paper explores the relationship amongst the various simplicial and
pseudo-simplicial objects characteristically associated to any bicategory C. It
proves the fact that the geometric realizations of all of these possible
candidate `nerves of C' are homotopy equivalent. Any one of these realizations
could therefore be taken as the classifying space BC of the bicategory. Its
other major result proves a direct extension of Thomason's `Homotopy Colimit
Theorem' to bicategories: When the homotopy colimit construction is carried out
on a diagram of spaces obtained by applying the classifying space functor to a
diagram of bicategories, the resulting space has the homotopy type of a certain
bicategory, called the `Grothendieck construction on the diagram'. Our results
provide coherence for all reasonable extensions to bicategories of Quillen's
definition of the `classifying space' of a category as the geometric
realization of the category's Grothendieck nerve, and they are applied to
monoidal (tensor) categories through the elemental `delooping' construction.Comment: 42 page
Abstract. In this article we state and prove precise theorems on the homotopy classification of graded categorical groups and their homomorphisms. The results use equivariant group cohomology, and they are applied to show a treatment of the general equivariant group extension problem.
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