In this paper following Conduché’s, [12], way of defining 2-crossed modules which are equivalent to Carrasco-Cegarra’s, [10], 2-hyper crossed complexes, we define the three crossed module of groups as a model for 4-types.

The hypercube parallel architecture is one of the most popular interconnection networks due to many of its attractive properties and its suitability for general purpose parallel processing. An attractive version of the hypercube is the crossed cube. It preserves the important properties of the hypercube and most importantly reduces the diameter by a factor of two. In this paper, we show the abi...

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...

We introduce a more general version of the so-called L-R-smash product and study its relations with other kinds of crossed products (two-sided smash and crossed product and diagonal crossed product).

In this paper, we have introduced the category of 2-quasi crossed modules for Lie algebras and constructed a pair adjoint functors between that 2-crossed algebras.

The classifying space of a crossed complex generalises the construction of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces. We show how the theory of fibrations of crossed complexes allows the analysis of homotopy classes of maps from a free crossed complex to such a classifying space. This gives results on the homotopy classification of maps from a CW -complex to the classifying space of a crossed module and also, ...

the aim of this paper is to study the $(alpha‎, ‎gamma)$-prolongation of central extensions‎. ‎we obtain the obstruction theory for $(alpha‎, ‎gamma)$-prolongations and classify $(alpha‎, ‎gamma)$-prolongations thanks to low-dimensional cohomology groups of groups‎.

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In order to study the electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotube junctions we have fabricated several devices consisting of two crossed nanotubes with electrical leads attached to each end of each nanotube. We correlate the properties of the junctions with the properties of the individual nanotubes: metal–metal, metal–semiconductor, and semiconductor– semiconductor junctions are all...