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RIGIDIFIED TORSOR COCYCLES, HYPERCOVERINGS AND BUNDLE GERBES

Part of: Categories and geometry (Co)homology theory Applied homological algebra and category theory Homology and cohomology theories Higher algebraic $K$-theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2020

STEFAN SCHRÖER
STEFAN SCHRÖER*
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40204Düsseldorf, Germany e-mail: schroeer@math.uni-duesseldorf.de
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Abstract

We give a geometric interpretation of sheaf cohomology for higher degrees $n\geq 1$ in terms of torsors on the member of degree $d=n-1$ in hypercoverings of type $r=n-2$, endowed with an additional datum, the so-called rigidification. This generalizes the fact that cohomology in degree one is the group of isomorphism classes of torsors, where the rigidification becomes vacuous, and that cohomology in degree two can be expressed in terms of bundle gerbes, where the rigidification becomes an associativity constraint.

Keywords

cohomologytorsorshypercoveringssimplicial sets

MSC classification

Primary: 55N30: Sheaf cohomology 19D23: Symmetric monoidal categories
Secondary: 55U10: Simplicial sets and complexes 18F20: Presheaves and sheaves 14F20: Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 112 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 115 - 144
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Footnotes

Communicated by M. Murray

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