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On the homotopy theory of sheaves of simplicial groupoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

André Joyal  and
Myles Tierney
André Joyal
Affiliation:
Département de mathématiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, H3C 3P8, Canada
Myles Tierney
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903, U.S.A.
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The aim of this paper is to contribute to the foundations of homotopy theory for simplicial sheaves, as we believe this is the natural context for the development of non-abelian, as well as extraordinary, sheaf cohomology.

In [11] we began constructing a theory of classifying spaces for sheaves of simplicial groupoids, and that study is continued here. Such a theory is essential for the development of basic tools such as Postnikov systems, Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequences, characteristic classes, and cohomology operations in extraordinary cohomology of sheaves. Thus, in some sense, we are continuing the program initiated by Illusie[7], Brown[2], and Brown and Gersten[3], though our basic homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves is different from theirs. In fact, the homotopy theory we use is the global one of [10]. As a result, there is some similarity between our theory and the theory of Jardine[8], which is also partially based on [10]

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , August 1996 , pp. 263 - 290
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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