The notion of geometric nerve of a 2-category (Street, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 49 (1987), 283-335) provides a full and faithful functor if regarded as defined on the category of 2-categories and lax 2-functors. Furthermore, lax 2-natural transformations between lax 2-functors give rise to homotopies between the corresponding simplicial maps. These facts allow us to prove a representation theorem of the general non-abelian cohomology of groupoids (classifying non-abelian extensions of groupoids) by means of homotopy classes of simplicial maps.
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Gurski, Nick
Johnson, Niles
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Ohio State Univ Newark, Dept Math, Newark, OH USACase Western Reserve Univ, Dept Math Appl Math & Stat, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
Johnson, Niles
Osorno, Angelica M.
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