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Stable Postnikov data of Picard $2$–categories

Nick Gurski, Niles Johnson, Angélica M Osorno and Marc Stephan

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 17 (2017) 2763–2806

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2017.17.2763

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