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On Infinite Matroids with Strong Maps: Proto-exactness and Finiteness Conditions

Combinatorics 2021-09-01 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

This paper investigates infinite matroids from a categorical perspective. We prove that the category of infinite matroids is a proto-exact category in the sense of Dyckerhoff and Kapranov, thereby generalizing our previous result on the category of finite matroids. We also characterize finitary matroids as co-limits of finite matroids, and show that the finite matroids are precisely the finitely presentable objects in this category.

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@article{arxiv.2108.13745,
  title  = {On Infinite Matroids with Strong Maps: Proto-exactness and Finiteness Conditions},
  author = {Chris Eppolito and Jaiung Jun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13745},
  year   = {2021}
}

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