Homotopy Transition Cocycles
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چکیده
For locally homotopy trivial fibrations, one can define transition functions gαβ : Uα ∩ Uβ → H = H(F ) where H is the monoid of homotopy equivalences of F to itself but, instead of the cocycle condition, one obtains only that gαβgβγ is homotopic to gαγ as a map of Uα ∩ Uβ ∩ Uγ into H. Moreover, on multiple intersections, higher homotopies arise and are relevant to classifying the fibration. The full theory was worked out by the first author in his 1965 Notre Dame thesis [17]. Here we present it using language that has been developed in the interim. We also show how this points a direction ‘on beyond gerbes’.
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