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Is there a notion of Čech groupoid of a cover of an object in a Grothendieck site?
Given a topological space $X$, and a cover $\mathcal{U} :=\cup_{\alpha \in I}U_{\alpha}$ of $X$, one can define a groupoid called Čech groupoid $C(\mathcal{U})$ of the cover $\mathcal{U}$ by $\...
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Albrecht Fröhlich's text `Groupoids, groupoid spaces and cohomology' (1965)
I am looking for Albrecht Fröhlich's unpublished text `Groupoids, groupoid spaces and cohomology' (1965). In this text Fröhlich defines cohomology of a group with coefficients in a groupoid (this was ...
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Second nonabelian group cohomology: cocycles vs. gerbes
In 1965 Jean Giraud published two Comptes Rendus notes titled "Cohomologie non abélienne", and in 1971 he published a book with the same title.
In 1966 Tonny A. Springer's paper "Nonabelian $H^2$ in ...