Symmetry groups or groupoids of C∗-algebras associated to nonHausdorff spaces are often non-Hausdorff as well. We describe such symmetries using crossed modules of groupoids. We define actions of crossed modules on C∗-algebras and crossed products for such actions, and justify these definitions with some basic general results and examples.

There is a well-known equivalence between the homotopy types of connected CW-spaces X with πnX=0 for n 6= 1, 2 and the quasi-isomorphism classes of crossed modules ∂ : M → P [16]. When the homotopy groups π1X and π2X are finite one can represent the homotopy type of X by a crossed module in which M and P are finite groups. We define the order of such a crossed module to be |∂| = |M | × |P |, an...

In this paper, we construct a neat description of the passage from crossed squares of commutative algebras to 2-crossed modules analogous to that given by Conduché in the group case. We also give an analogue, for commutative algebra, of T.Porter’s [13] simplicial groups to n-cubes of groups which implies an inverse functor to Conduché’s one.

In this work we deal with actions of vector groupoid which is a new concept in the literature‎. ‎After we give the definition of the action of a vector groupoid on a vector space‎, ‎we obtain some results related to actions of vector groupoids‎. ‎We also apply some characterizations of the category and groupoid theory to vector groupoids‎. ‎As the second part of the work‎, ‎we define the notion...

We establish a general coherence theorem for lax operad actions on an n-category which implies that an n-category with such an action is lax equivalent to one with a strict action. This includes familiar coherence results (e.g. for symmetric monoidal categories) and many new ones. In particular, any braided monoidal n-category is lax equivalent to a strict braided monoidal n-category. We also o...

In this paper we construct “structural” pre-braidings characterizing different algebraic structures: a rack, an associative algebra, a Leibniz algebra and their representations. Some of these pre-braidings seem original. On the other hand, we propose a general homology theory for pre-braided vector spaces and braided modules, based on the quantum co-shuffle comultiplication. Applied to the stru...

We study the braided monoidal structure that the fusion product induces on the abelian category Wp-mod, the category of representations of the triplet W -algebra Wp. The Wp-algebras are a family of vertex operator algebras that form the simplest known examples of symmetry algebras of logarithmic conformal field theories. We formalise the methods for computing fusion products, developed by Nahm,...