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Pushouts of categories, derived limits and colimits

Category Theory 2014-01-17 v1

Abstract

In a paper by Ford, it is claimed that to any pushout square of categories with all involved functors injective, there is associated an exact "Mayer--Vietoris" sequence of derived (co)limits. We provide a counter-example to this general statement. Further, we construct the Mayer--Vietoris sequence under some restrictions that cover the well-known case of a pushout square of group monomorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3757,
  title  = {Pushouts of categories, derived limits and colimits},
  author = {Lukáš Vokřínek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3757},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages

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