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An embedding theorem for regular Mal'tsev categories

Category Theory 2017-10-10 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain a non-abelian analogue of Lubkin's embedding theorem for abelian categories. Our theorem faithfully embeds any small regular Mal'tsev category C\mathbb{C} in an nn-th power of a particular locally finitely presentable regular Mal'tsev category. The embedding preserves and reflects finite limits, isomorphisms and regular epimorphisms, as in the case of Barr's embedding theorem for regular categories. Furthermore, we show that we can take nn to be the (cardinal) number of subobjects of the terminal object in C\mathbb{C}.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03198,
  title  = {An embedding theorem for regular Mal'tsev categories},
  author = {Pierre-Alain Jacqmin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03198},
  year   = {2017}
}
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