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Universal central extensions in semi-abelian categories

Category Theory 2014-04-07 v1

Abstract

Basing ourselves on Janelidze and Kelly's general notion of central extension, we study universal central extensions in the context of semi-abelian categories. We consider a new fundamental condition on composition of central extensions and give examples of categories which do, or do not, satisfy this condition.

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@article{arxiv.1302.5501,
  title  = {Universal central extensions in semi-abelian categories},
  author = {Jose Manuel Casas and Tim Van der Linden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5501},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, compact revised and published version of the paper arXiv:0908.3762

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