Nonabelian cocycles and the spectrum of a symmetric monoidal category

We present an Eilenberg-MacLane-type description for the first, second and third spaces of the spectrum defined by a symmetric monoidal category.

Keywords:

Symmetric monoidal category, nonabelian cocycles, classifying space, loop space, spectrum higher category,

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