Groupoids and crossed objects in algebraic topology

Ronald Brown

This is an introductory survey of the passage from groups to groupoids and their higher dimensional versions, with most emphasis on calculations with crossed modules and the construction and use of homotopy double groupoids.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 1, 1999, No. 1, pp 1-78

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