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What does the classifying space of a category classify?

  • Weiss M
Homology, Homotopy and Applications (2005) 7(1) 185-195
DOI: 10.4310/hha.2005.v7.n1.a10
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Abstract

The classifying space of a small category classifies sheaves whose values are contravariant functors from that category to sets and whose stalks are representable.

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Weiss, M. (2005). What does the classifying space of a category classify? Homology, Homotopy and Applications, 7(1), 185–195. https://doi.org/10.4310/hha.2005.v7.n1.a10

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