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Adjoint to "strict twocategory of strict twofunctors"
Let C be the category of strict twofunctors, featuring the addition of a Grothendieck universe. Strict twocategories are categories enriched over the category of categories.
C has an internal hom ...
user531303
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Why does the category of abelian groups satisfy the axiom AB6?
In his Tohoku article, Grothendieck says that the category $\mathbf{Ab}$ of abelian groups satisfies the axiom AB6, namely
"All small colimits exist in $\mathbf{Ab}$. Moreover for any index ...
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Groupoid cardinality of the class of abelian p-groups
$\DeclareMathOperator\Aut{Aut}\newcommand\card[1]{\lvert#1\rvert}$So, after going over the classification of finite abelian groups in a class I was teaching this winter, I got curious about whether it ...
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Are condensed vector spaces over finite fields always solid?
The Clausen-Scholze theory of condensed mathematics offers an abelian category with enough projective objects that embraces the study of arbitrary locally compact (and Hausdorff) groups. The behaviour ...
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Uncountable Mittag-Leffler condition?
Let $(X_\alpha)_{\alpha <\kappa}$ be an inverse system of abelian groups.
If $\kappa = \omega$ (or by extension if $\kappa$ is of countable cofinality), then the Mittag-Leffler condition is a ...
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Example of an uncountable sequence of abelian groups with nonvanishing $\varprojlim^2$?
$\DeclareMathOperator{\op}{\mathrm{op}}\DeclareMathOperator{\Ab}{\mathsf{Ab}}\DeclareMathOperator{\Vect}{\mathsf{Vect}}$Question 1: What is an example of a sequence $(X_\alpha)_{\alpha<\kappa}$ of ...
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When is every element of a coend of abelian groups contained in one of the summands?
Let $I$ be a small category and let $D : I^{\mathrm{op}} \times I \to \mathsf{Ab}$ be a functor. The coend
$$\int^{i \in I} D(i,i)$$
can be constructed as the direct sum $\bigoplus_{i \in I} D(i,i)$ ...
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Is there a free profinite abelian group on a profinite set?
Let $\mathit{Profinite}_{\mathrm{Ab}}$ be the category of profinite abelian groups, and let $\mathit{Profinite}_{\mathrm{Set}}$ be the category of profinite sets. Does the forgetful functor
$$\mathit{...
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Image of $\rm{lim}^1$ functor
In category of abelian groups, we know that
— values of $\rm{lim}^1$ on countable systems are precisely cotorsion groups
— values of $\rm{lim}^1$ on systems of finitely generated groups are of the ...
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On the laplacian of connected, undirected, multigraphs without loops
Let $G$ be a connected, undirected multigraph, without loops.
Let $L_G = D_G - A_G$,
where $D_G= diag (val (v_1), \ldots , val (v_n) )$ where $n$ is the no. of vertices of $G$ and $val (v_i)$ ...
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Is a left-exact limit-preserving functor $Ab \to Ab$ necessarily representable?
Let $Ab$ be the category of abelian groups, and let $F: Ab \to Ab$ be a covariant functor which is left-exact and limit-preserving. Is $F$ necessarily naturally equivalent to a functor of the form $\...
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Categorical proof subgroups of free groups are free?
This is a crossport of this question from MSE.
Is there a categorical proof that subgroups of free groups are free?
How about the result that subgroups of free abelian groups are free abelian?
What ...
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When does a cogenerator determine a variety?
Two varieties of universal algebras are categorically equivalent iff their respective full subcategories of finitely generated free algebras are equivalent. Roughly speaking, this follows because they ...
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Looking for concrete description of a category derived from abelian groups
The category of abelian groups $\mathsf{Ab}$ is the $\mathcal{Ind}$-completion of the full subcategory of finitely presentable abelian groups $\mathsf{Ab}_{fp}$. This is not so special, since the ...
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Inductive vs projective limit of sequence of split surjections
Let
$$
A_1\twoheadrightarrow
A_2\twoheadrightarrow
A_3\twoheadrightarrow
A_4\twoheadrightarrow
\cdots
$$
be an inductive sequence of countable abelian groups, the connecting homomorphisms of which are ...
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Why does tensor product in Ab(V) require colimits in V?
In Tom Leinster's book on operads, he gives Ab(V), the category of abelian groups in a symmetric monoidal category V, as an example of a multicategory that doesn't arise from a monoidal category, ...
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Categories with canonical factorizations into products satisfying two particular properties
An old splitting theorem for (Hausdorff) locally compact abelian (LCA) groups says that any LCA group $L$ is isomorphic to a direct product of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $L_1$, where $L_1$ contains a compact-...
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The category of Abelian groups with selected elements
Hi,
In his book (Categories for the working mathematician) MacLane speaks (on page 45) about the category of objects (of $\textbf{Ab}$) under $\mathbb{Z}$ which is the comma category $(\mathbb{Z}\...
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