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sheaf of n-types

The term sheaf of n-types is another word for an ∞-stack that has trivial homotopy groups above degree n.

Under the homotopy hypothesis a homotopy n-type is just an ∞-groupoid that has trivial homotopy groups above degree n. Hence a “sheaf of n-types” is just a special case of a “sheaf of -groupoid”s which is usually called an n-stack .

Revised on September 12, 2009 20:44:32 by Toby Bartels (71.104.230.172)