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 of a finite product 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 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