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Homological algebra for commutative monoids?
Homological algebra for abelian groups is a standard tool in many fields of mathematics. How much carries over to the setting of commutative monoids (with unit)? It seems like there is a notion of ...
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Projective resolutions for commutative monoids
What is the right notion of a projective resolution of a commutative monoid?
The category Mon of commutative monoids has plenty of projective (and even free) objects. Indeed, for every set $X$ one ...