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math.CT2026

Observations on the variety of equationally linear Heyting semilattices

Xabier García-Martínez, James R. A. Gray, Michael A. Hoefnagel +2

In previous work, we analysed a number of categorical properties, of interest in the context of Janelidze-Márki-Tholen semi-abelian categories, for the variety of…

math.CT2026

A two-categorical Snake Lemma

Elena Caviglia, Luca Mesiti, Tim Van der Linden

We prove a Snake Lemma for 2-categories. Working in a 2-category with a strong bizero object, we develop 2-kernels and 2-cokernels, 2-monomorphisms and 2-epimorphisms as fully fait…

math.CT2025

Categorical-algebraic aspects of Heyting semilattices

Xabier García-Martínez, James R. A. Gray, Michael A. Hoefnagel +2

This article gives an overview of some key categorical-algebraic properties of the variety of Heyting semilattices, with the aim of correcting a misconception in the literature. We…

math.CT2024★ 1 cited

Non-additive derived functors via chain resolutions

Maxime Culot, Fara Renaud, Tim Van der Linden

Let be a functor from a category to a homological (Borceux-Bourn) or semi-abelian (Janelidze-Márki-Tholen) category $\mathcal{E}…

math.CT2024

A Homological View of Categorical Algebra

George Peschke, Tim Van der Linden

We provide a foundation for working with homological and homotopical methods in categorical algebra. This involves two mutually complementary components, namely (a) the strategic s…

math.CT2023

Twisted Commutators and Internal Crossed Modules

Bo Shan Deval, Tim Van der Linden

We introduce a notion of relative commutator -- an important special case being commutators twisted by an action -- as a straightforward modification of the definition of the Higgi…

math.CT2023

A universal Kaluzhnin--Krasner embedding theorem

Bo Shan Deval, Xabier García-Martínez, Tim Van der Linden

Given two groups and , the Kaluzhnin--Krasner universal embedding theorem states that the wreath product acts as a universal receptacle for extensions from to $…

math.CT2023★ 5 cited

Weak representability of actions of non-associative algebras

Jose Brox, Xabier García-Martínez, Manuel Mancini +2

We study the categorical-algebraic condition that internal actions are weakly representable (WRA) in the context of varieties of (non-associative) algebras over a field. Our first…

math.CT2023

Homological lemmas for (non-abelian) group-like structures by diagram chasing in a self-dual context

Kishan Kumar Dayaram, Amartya Goswami, Zurab Janelidze +2

Through abelian categories, homological lemmas for modules admit a self-dual treatment, where half of the proof of a lemma is sufficient to prove the full lemma. In this paper, we…

math.CT2022★ 1 cited

A symmetric approach to higher coverings in categorical Galois theory

Fara Renaud, Tim Van der Linden

In the context of a tower of (strongly Birkhoff) Galois structures in the sense of categorical Galois theory, we show that the concept of a higher covering admits a characterisatio…

math.CT2021★ 1 cited

Algebraic logoi

D. Bourn, A. S. Cigoli, J. R. A. Gray +1

We introduce normal cores, as well as the more general action cores, in the context of a semi-abelian category, and further generalise those to split extension cores in the context…

math.CT2017★ 19 cited

A characterisation of Lie algebras via algebraic exponentiation

Xabier García-Martínez, Tim Van der Linden

In this article we describe varieties of Lie algebras via algebraic exponentiation, a concept introduced by Gray in his Ph.D. thesis. For an infinite field of characte…

math.CT2016★ 12 cited

Two characterisations of groups amongst monoids

Andrea Montoli, Diana Rodelo, Tim Van der Linden

The aim of this paper is to solve a problem proposed by Dominique Bourn: to provide a categorical-algebraic characterisation of groups amongst monoids and of rings amongst semiring…

math.CT2016★ 1 cited

What is an ideal a zero-class of?

N. Martins-Ferreira, A. Montoli, A. Ursini +1

We characterise, in pointed regular categories, the ideals as the zero-classes of surjective relations. Moreover, we study a variation of the "Smith is Huq" condition: two surjecti…

math.CT2016

A criterion for reflectiveness of normal extensions

Andrea Montoli, Diana Rodelo, Tim Van der Linden

We give a new sufficient condition for the normal extensions in an admissible Galois structure to be reflective. We then show that this condition is indeed fulfilled when X is the…

math.CT2015★ 16 cited

Higher central extensions and cohomology

Diana Rodelo, Tim Van der Linden

We establish a Galois-theoretic interpretation of cohomology in semi-abelian categories: cohomology with trivial coefficients classifies central extensions, also in arbitrarily hig…

math.CT2014★ 19 cited

Algebraically coherent categories

Alan S. Cigoli, James R. A. Gray, Tim Van der Linden

We call a finitely complete category algebraically coherent when the change-of-base functors of its fibration of points are coherent, which means that they preserve finite limits a…

math.CT2014★ 8 cited

Peri-abelian categories and the universal central extension condition

James R. A. Gray, Tim Van der Linden

We study the relation between Bourn's notion of peri-abelian category and conditions involving the coincidence of the Smith, Huq and Higgins commutators. In particular we show that…

math.CT2013★ 22 cited

On the normality of Higgins commutators

Alan S. Cigoli, James R. A. Gray, Tim Van der Linden

In a semi-abelian context, we study the condition (NH) asking that Higgins commutators of normal subobjects are normal subobjects. We provide examples of categories that do or do n…

math.CT2013

The fundamental group functor as a Kan extension

Tomas Everaert, Julia Goedecke, Tim Van der Linden

We prove that the fundamental group functor from categorical Galois theory may be computed as a Kan extension.

math.CT2013

An observation on n-permutability

Nelson Martins-Ferreira, Diana Rodelo, Tim Van der Linden

We prove that in a regular category all reflexive and transitive relations are symmetric if and only if every internal category is an internal groupoid. In particular, these condit…

math.CT2013★ 6 cited

A decomposition formula for the weighted commutator

Nelson Martins-Ferreira, Tim Van der Linden

We decompose the weighted subobject commutator of M. Gran, G. Janelidze and A. Ursini as a join of a binary and a ternary commutator.

math.CT2013★ 35 cited

Universal central extensions in semi-abelian categories

Jose Manuel Casas, Tim Van der Linden

Basing ourselves on Janelidze and Kelly's general notion of central extension, we study universal central extensions in the context of semi-abelian categories. We consider a new fu…

math.CT2012★ 21 cited

Resolutions, higher extensions and the relative Mal'tsev axiom

Tomas Everaert, Julia Goedecke, Tim Van der Linden

We study how the concept of higher-dimensional extension which comes from categorical Galois theory relates to simplicial resolutions. For instance, an augmented simplicial object…