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Fibered aspects of Yoneda's regular span

Category Theory 2018-06-08 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

In this paper we start by pointing out that Yoneda's notion of a regular span S ⁣:XA×BS \colon \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{A} \times \mathcal{B} can be interpreted as a special kind of morphism, that we call fiberwise opfibration, in the 2-category Fib(A)\mathsf{Fib}(\mathcal{A}). We study the relationship between these notions and those of internal opfibration and two-sided fibration. This fibrational point of view makes it possible to interpret Yoneda's Classification Theorem given in his 1960 paper as the result of a canonical factorization, and to extend it to a non-symmetric situation, where the fibration given by the product projection Pr0 ⁣:A×BAPr_0 \colon \mathcal{A} \times \mathcal{B} \to \mathcal{A} is replaced by any split fibration over A\mathcal{A}. This new setting allows us to transfer Yoneda's theory of extensions to the non-additive analog given by crossed extensions for the cases of groups and other algebraic structures.

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@article{arxiv.1806.02376,
  title  = {Fibered aspects of Yoneda's regular span},
  author = {Alan S. Cigoli and Sandra Mantovani and Giuseppe Metere and Enrico M. Vitale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02376},
  year   = {2018}
}