Extensions of groups by braided 2-groups

Details Extensions of groups by braided 2-groups Extensions of groups by braided 2-groups

2011-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/1106.0772v1

Mathematics

Category Theory

13 pages

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We classify extensions of a group $G$ by a braided 2-group $\mathcal{B}$ as defined by Drinfeld, Gelaki, Nikshych, and Ostrik. We describe such extensions as homotopy classes of maps from the classifying space of $G$ to the classifying space of the 3-group of braided $\mathcal{B}$-bitorsors. The Postnikov system of the latter space contains a generalization of the classical Pontryagin square to the setting of local coefficients, which has been previously discussed by Baues and more recently, in a setting close to ours, by Etingof, Nikshych, and Ostrik. We give an explicit cochain-level description of this Pontryagin square for group cohomology.

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