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RemarksAn indexed family or class of topological groupoids [𝖦i] with i∈I in the category Grpd of groupoids with additional axioms, rules, or properties of the underlying topological groupoids, that specify an indexed family of topological groupoid homomorphisms for each variable groupoidstructure.

Besides systems modelled in terms of a fibration of groupoids, one may consider a multiple groupoid defined as a set of Ngroupoid structures, any distinct pair of which satisfy aninterchange law which can be formulated as follows. There exists a unique expression with the following content:

where i and j must be distinct for this concept to be well defined. This uniqueness can also be represented by the equation

RemarksThis illustrates the principle that a 2-dimensional formula may be more comprehensible than a linear one.

Brown and Higgins, 1981a, showed that certain multiple groupoids equipped with an extra structure called connections wereequivalent to another structure called a crossed complex_which had already occurred in homotopy theory. such as_double, or multiple groupoids (Brown, 2004; 2005). For example, the notion of an atlas of structures should, in principle, apply to a lot of interesting, topological and/or algebraic, structures: groupoids, multiple groupoids, Heyting algebras, n-valued logic algebras and C*-convolution -algebras. Such examples occur frequently in Higher Dimensional Algebra(HDA).