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Characterizations of majority categories

Category Theory 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

In universal algebra, it is well known that varieties admitting a majority term admit several Mal'tsev-type characterizations. The main aim of this paper is to establish categorical counterparts of some of these characterizations for regular categories. We prove a categorical version of Bergman's Double-projection Theorem: a regular category is a majority category if and only if every subobject SS of a finite product A1×A2××AnA_1 \times A_2 \times \cdots \times A_n is uniquely determined by its two-fold projections. We also establish a categorical counterpart of the Pairwise Chinese Remainder Theorem for algebras, and characterize regular majority categories by the classical congruence equation α(βγ)=(αβ)(αγ)\alpha \cap (\beta \circ \gamma) = (\alpha \cap \beta) \circ (\alpha \cap \gamma) due to A.F.~Pixley.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06920,
  title  = {Characterizations of majority categories},
  author = {Michael Hoefnagel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06920},
  year   = {2019}
}

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29 pages

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