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  1. I added a reference to a paper of mine

    Amnon Yekutieli

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    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2020

    added pointer to

    • Jinpeng An. Zhengdong Wang, Nonabelian cohomology with coefficients in Lie groups,Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 3019-3040 (doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04278-5)

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    added these pointers:

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    For citation purposes, what’s a good (textbook) account that makes explicit both the concept of non-abelian cohomology and its representation by classifying spaces (under suitable conditions)

    I am asking, because the literature on “non-abelian cohomology” tends to jump to arcane properties before ever saying clearly what the (simple) main structure of the general theory actually is. As a result, it is hard to tell a reader “see reference XYZ”, because if they don’t already know about the topic, they might not even recognize that XYZ is about this topic.

    The article Roberts-Stevenson 12 above stands out in this respect, as it does state these general principle on the first three pages, even if not quite in an expository way.

    But ignoring higher groups and stuff, just focusing on the ancient theory. What’s your preferred textbook(-style) reference that makes clear that non-abelian cohomology is a thing and that its ultimately about maps into classifying spaces?

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    I have tried to give some more logical order to the list of references.

    Now I have introduced 3 subsections under “References”, correspondoing to discussion in homotopical dimensioon 1, 2, \infty, respectively.

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    added publication data to:

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    added publication details to:

    • Carlos Simpson, Algebraic aspects of higher nonabelian Hodge theory, in: Fedor Bogomolov, Ludmil Katzarkov (eds.), Motives, polylogarithms and Hodge theory, Part II (Irvine, CA, 1998), Int. Press Lect. Ser., 3, II, Int. Press, 2002, 2016, 417-604. (arXiv:math/9902067, ISBN:9781571462909)

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    added pointer to

    (since unstable operations on stable cohomology is really operations on their image in non-abelian cohomology)

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    finally an original reference:

    • Alexander Grothendieck, Chapter V of: A General Theory of Fibre Spaces With Structure Sheaf, University of Kansas, Report No. 4 (1955, 1958) [pdf]

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    and:

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    I can’t find this item online:

    • Paul Dedecker, Cohomologie de dimension 2 à coefficients non abéliens, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 247 (1958) 1160-1163

    but searching for it brings up the following references, which had been missing here and which I have added to the entry now:

    have also re-organized the list of references around this (here) to be more systematic

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    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2023

    Added missing link to Dedecker’s 1958 article

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    • Samuel Eilenberg, Saunders MacLane, Cohomology theory in abstract groups. II. Group extensions with a non-Abelian kernel, Ann. of Math. (2) 48, (1947). 326–341 jstor:1969174

    • Saunders MacLane, Cohomology theory in abstract groups. III. Operator homomorphisms of kernels. Ann. of Math. (2) 50, (1949). 736–761.

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    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2023

    Thanks for highlighting. The actual definition of non-abelian group cohomology seem to be in part I (here). Incidentally, this seems to be the kind of original reference that, a while ago, I had been looking for to add to crossed homomorphism.

    We should add this also to nonabelian group cohomology. Will do so now…

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    I just wrote:

    The actual definition of non-abelian group cohomology seem to be in part I

    Hm, or maybe not. I’ll need to have a closer look. Where do they actually define non-abelian group cohomology?

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    • (edited Jun 23rd 2023)

    No, part I is abelian.

    Part II goes nonabelian.

    (7.2) for f 3=1f_3=1 is a nonabelian 2-cocycle condition, while the equation before Lemma 7.2 expresses what is a nonabelian 3-cocycle and (9.3) explains when a 3-cocycle is a coboundary. Compare the section on “traditional approach” at group extension where this is extracted (using later expositions like Kurosh which are based on Schreier + Eilenberg-MacLane II).

    Nonabelian 1- 2- cocycle and coboundary conditions were stated beforehand By Schreier in 1928 or so, 3-cocycle in Teichmueller in 1940 (cited in Eilenberg MacLane II) and so on. A standard reference for “Galois” nonabelian cohomology (1-, 2-, 3-cocycles) is also Serre.

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    This is Schreier:

    • Otto Schreier, Über die Erweiterung von Gruppen I., Monatsh. f. Mathematik und Physik 34, 165–180 (1926) doi
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    added pointer to Lurie 2014 for the understanding of non-abelian cohomology as homotopy classes of maps into any (pointed) space

    took the liberty of also pointing to my 2009 Oberwolfach talk (here) where I had started using this perspective

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    added pointer to:

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    have put some actual content into the Idea section

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    The description of a sequential Omega-spectrum looks like it is missing an Omega!

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    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2024

    Oh. :-)

    Fixed now.

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    Have also !include-ed (here) the table “cohomlogy and gauge fieds” (see there).

    (This and the surrounding paragraphs are following the new introduction to The Character Map in Equivariant Twistorial Cohomotopy.)

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    added (here) another Idea-subsection: “Ordinary nonabelian cohomology”

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    following up on this, I also added subsections

    “Ordinary Abelian Cohomology” (here)

    “Ordinary Characteristic Classes” (here)

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    have added further sections:

    • “Ordinary Character Map” (here)

    • “Ordinary Connections” (here)

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  2. This is looking very accessible.

    Typo: you have ’realtive homotopy’ towards the end of the ’Twisted non-abelian cohomology’ subsection in an image.

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    Thanks, fixed now.

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