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Tim Porter
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There are 'obvious' places to follow this up. The mentions in PS (Pursuing Stacks) are worth looking into (but skim that as you can easily get bogged down in it and weighted down by its length) and also see the 'letters to Larry Breen' from 1975 (for which look at the Grothendieck circle pages . These latter give some of the wish-list for a theory of $n$-groupoids, including the corresponding higher Galois theory (and here you could skip to 2015 and Marc Hoyois's preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.07155v3.pdf). For the development since then the work of Luris, and Toen and Vezzosi provide sources for some of the ideas, but I am not sure what aspect you are interested in.

Look through Ronnie Brown's page that relates to PS ( pages.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/pstacks.htm) and follow up some of the links and look at http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~georges.maltsiniotis/ps/agrb_web.pdf.

There is in PS, I seem to remember, some explicit mention of `topological algebra' in the sense you want.

Tim Porter
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