Using the theory of pasting presentations, developed in chapter 2, I give a detailed description of the tensor product on !-categories, which extends Gray's tensor product on 2-categories and which is closely related to Brown-Higgins's tensor product on !-groupoids. Immediate consequences are a general and uniform definition of higher dimensional lax natural transformations, and a nice and transparent description of the corresponding internal homs. Further consequences will be in the development of a theory for weak n-categories, since both tensor products and lax structures are crucial in this. Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Cubes and cubical sets 5 2.1 Cubes combinatorially : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 5 2.2 A model category for cubes : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 2.3 Generating the model category for cubes : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 7 2.4 Cubical sets : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 9 2.5 Duality : : : : : : : : : : : : : ...

... L are simplicial sets, then there is a strong deformation retraction of the fundamental crossed complex of the cartesian product K \Theta L onto the tensor product of the fundamental crossed complexes of K and L. This satisfies various side-conditions and associativity/interchange laws, as for the chain complex version. Given simplicial sets K 0 ; : : : ; K r , we discuss the r-cube of homotopies induced on (K 0 \Theta : : : \Theta K r ) and show these form a coherent system. We introduce a definition of a double crossed complex, and of the associated total (or codiagonal) crossed complex. We introduce a definition of homotopy colimits of diagrams of crossed complexes. We show that the homotopy colimit of crossed complexes can be expressed as the

Extended cubical sets (with connections and interchanges) are presheaves on a ground category, the extended cubical site K, corresponding to the (augmented) simplicial site, the category of finite ordinals. We prove here that K has characterisations similar to the classical ones for the simplicial analogue, by generators and relations, or by the existence of a universal symmetric cubical monoid ; in fact, K is the classifying category of a monoidal algebraic theory of such monoids. Analogous results are given for the restricted cubical site I of ordinary cubical sets (just faces and degeneracies) and for the intermediate site J (including connections). We also consider briefly the reversible analogue, !K.

Abstract. The results of a previous paper on the equivariant homotopy theory of crossed complexes are generalised from the case of a discrete group to general topological groups. The principal new ingredient necessary for this is an analysis of homotopy coherence theory for crossed complexes, using detailed results on the appropriate Eilenberg–Zilber theory, and of its relation to simplicial homotopy coherence. Again, our results give information not just on the homotopy classification of certain equivariant maps, but also on the weak equivariant homotopy type of the corresponding equivariant function spaces. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2001): 55P91, 55U10, 18G55. Key words: equivariant homotopy theory, classifying space, function space, crossed complex.

this paper is the extension of this result to the case of twisted coefficients given by

this article, but beware of misprints. A more thorough treatment is given in May, [18]. We will use (standard) notation from [18] wherever possible. The way found initially around the restriction that K had to be reduced in the above loop construction was to take a maximal tree in K and to contract it to a point. In 1984, a groupoid version of the loop group construction was given by Dwyer and Kan, [12]. (Unfortunately the published paper has many misprints and the cleaned-up version that we will use was prepared by my student Phil Ehlers as part of his master's dissertation, [13]. Alternatives have been proposed by Joyal and Tierney, and by Moerdijk and Svensson. They end up with simplicial objects in the category of groupoids, whilst the Dwyer - Kan version gives a simplicially enriched groupoid, i.e. a groupoid all of whose Hom-objects are simplicial sets. A simplicially enriched groupoid is also a simplicial groupoid (simplicial object in the category of groupoids), but is one whose object of objects is a constant simplicial set.) Let SS denote the category of simplicial sets and SGpds that of simplicially enriched groupoids or as we will often call them, simply, simplicial groupoids. The loop groupoid functor is a functor

Dedicated to the memory of Frank Adams

This survey article shows how the notion of "change of base", used in some applications to homotopy theory of the fundamental groupoid, has surprising higher dimensional analogues, through the use of certain higher homotopy groupoids with values in forms of multiple groupoids.

: Using simplicial methods developed in [22], we construct topological quantum field theories using an algebraic model of a homotopy n-type as initial data, generalising a construction of Yetter in [23] for n=1 and in [24] for n=2 Introduction In [23], Yetter showed how to construct a topological quantum field theory with coefficients in a finite group. In [24], he showed that his construction could be extended to handle coefficients in a finite categorical group, or cat 1 -group. These objects are algebraic models for certain homotopy 2-types. The topological quantum field theories thus constructed are (2+1) TQFTs, but the methods used do not depend on the manifolds being surfaces, except to avoid possible irregularities related to problems of triangulations in low dimensions. Yetter ended that second note with some open questions, the third of which was: can one carry out the same sort of construction for algebraic models of higher homotopy types? In this note we will show that a ...

Using free simplicial groups, it is shown how to construct a free or totally free 2-crossed module on suitable construction data. 2-crossed complexes are introduced and similar freeness results for these are discussed. A. M. S. Classication: 18D35 18G30 18G50 18G55. Introduction Crossed modules were introduced by Whitehead in [23] with a view to capturing the relationship between 1 and 2 of a space. Homotopy systems (which would now be called free crossed complexes [5] or totally free crossed chain complexes (cf. Baues [3, 4]) were introduced, again by Whitehead, to incorporate the action of 1 on the higher relative homotopy groups of a CW-complex. They consist of a crossed module at the base and a chain complex of modules over 1 further up. Conduche [9] dened 2-crossed modules as a model of connected 3-types and showed how to obtain a 2-crossed module from a simplicial group. A variant of 2-crossed modules are the quadratic modules of Baues [3, 4] and he also denes a not...