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Weakly Schreier extensions for general algebras

Rings and Algebras 2023-07-18 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

Weakly Schreier split extensions are a reasonably large, yet well-understood class of monoid extensions, which generalise some aspects of split extensions of groups. This short note provides a way to define and study similar classes of split extensions in general algebraic structures (parameterised by a term θ\theta). These generalise weakly Schreier extensions of monoids, as well as general extensions of semi-abelian varieties (using the θ\theta appearing in their syntactical characterisation). Restricting again to the case of monoids, a different choice of θ\theta leads to a new class of monoid extensions, more general than the weakly Schreier split extensions.

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@article{arxiv.2211.01132,
  title  = {Weakly Schreier extensions for general algebras},
  author = {Graham Manuell and Nelson Martins-Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01132},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, fixed typos, added additional background at request of referee

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