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Comments/references on an obscure category of "rudimentary representations"

Consider a finite toset (cool word) $A=\{a_1<\ldots<a_N\}$. Let an ordered monomial be a finite formal product $b_1\ldots b_M$ with $b_i\in A$ and $b_i\le b_{i+1}$. Consider the following ...
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Is there a theory of decomposition into indecomposables? What's the relation to idempotents?

Call a nonzero object of a pointed category simple if it has no proper quotients, and indecomposable if it's not the product of two objects (dual to connected). Idempotents seem to pop up in many ...
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