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Actually having an ∞-groupoid — not its invariants, the object itself, with its defining property machine-verified.
Everything in progress_complex/cubical computed invariants (Betti numbers) of spaces. That is
not the same as possessing the ∞-groupoid: by the homotopy hypothesis the simplicial model of an
∞-groupoid is a Kan complex — a simplicial set in which every horn (a simplex with one face
missing) can be filled. Here we build such an object directly: the nerve of a group, whose
degree-n simplices are Gⁿ (chains of composable arrows), and we verify the Kan condition —
every horn fills — in degrees 2 and 3. The nerve of Aut(F) is exactly BG = K(Aut(F),1), the
classifying space the symmetry tower named, so this is that ∞-groupoid, now had as an object.
It is honestly the 1-truncated one: inner horns fill uniquely, the hallmark of the nerve of a
1-groupoid (no genuine higher cells). A non-truncated ∞-groupoid — nontrivial π_{≥2}, inner horns
with several fillers, the homology ladder’s higher πₙ assembled into one coherent complex with
its k-invariants — is the frontier this does NOT yet reach, and we say so in the test that proves the
uniqueness.
Functions§
- inner_
horns_ fill_ uniquely - Does every compatible inner horn (
0 < k < n) fill uniquely? Unique inner fillers are the signature of a 1-truncated nerve — the ∞-groupoid is exactlyK(G,1) = BG, no genuine higher cells. - kan_
fills - Does the nerve satisfy the Kan condition for horns
Λⁿ_k— does every compatible horn fill? - nerve_
cohomology_ size - The simplicial cohomology
|Hⁿ(BG; A)|of the nerveBG = K(G,1), computed from the nerve’s own face maps. By the Eilenberg–MacLane representing propertyHⁿ(BG; A) = [BG, K(A,n)]; we confirm it equals the algebraic group cohomologyHⁿ(G; A), so the spectrum represents — on the symmetry’s classifying space — exactly group cohomology, the home of the Postnikov k-invariants.