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Derived topological stacks?
I apologize for the vagueness of the following.
Informally, in the site of commutative rings, one roughly get the notion of a derived stack by swapping out the commmutative rings with its subcategory ...
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Analysis of Eilenberg-MacLane Stacks
In a series of three papers from the fifties, Eilenberg and MacLane did a pretty exhaustive study of what we now call "Eilenberg-MacLane spaces" and used a lot of machinery to do it, e.g. Whitehead's $...
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Given a map of classifying spaces, can the target be described as a groupoid quotient of the source mod some action of some (co)kernel?
Let $H \to G$ be a homomorphism of affine algebraic groups (over characteristic $0$, if it matters). The case I care most about is when $H \to G$ is an inclusion. There is a corresponding map $f: \...