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The 2-group frontier — climbing past K(G,1) to genuine 2-types, honestly.
The tower named its 1-truncation: a discrete symmetry group G gives the ∞-groupoid
BG = K(G,1) — π₁ = G, πₙ = 0 for n ≥ 2. To populate π₂ you need a 2-group (a symmetry
whose symmetries themselves have symmetries), modeled by a crossed module ∂: H → G:
π₁ = coker(∂) = G / ∂(H)— the symmetries that survive modulo the higher cells, andπ₂ = ker(∂)— the genuinely higher homotopy.
This module builds that machinery and is honest about where our SAT structure sits in it: our
symmetry is the degenerate crossed module 1 → G (so π₂ = 0, BG = K(G,1)), and a genuine
2-group Z/m → 1 gives π₂ = Z/m ≠ 0 — a K(Z/m, 2). The machinery reads off both; our case is
the 1-type. Climbing further (π₃, …) is the same construction one categorical level up — the
frontier, named, not claimed.
Structs§
- Crossed
Module - A crossed module
∂: H → G— the algebraic model of a 2-group.partial[h]is∂(h) ∈ G, a group homomorphism. Its homotopy groups areπ₁ = coker(∂)andπ₂ = ker(∂). - Finite
Group - A finite group by its (0-indexed) multiplication table.