Pushout stability of embeddings, injectivity and categories of algebras

dc.creatorSousa, Lurdes
dc.date2002-04-10
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dc.descriptionIn several familiar subcategories of the category ${\mathbb T}$ of topological spaces and continuous maps, embeddings are not pushout-stable. But, an interesting feature, capturable in many categories, namely in categories $\mathcal{B}$ of topological spaces, is the following: For $\mathcal{M}$ the class of all embeddings, the subclass of all pushout-stable $\mathcal{M}$-morphisms (that is, of those $\mathcal{M}$-morphisms whose pushout along an arbitrary morphism always belongs to $\mathcal{M}$) is of the form $A^{Inj}$ for some space $A$, where $A^{Inj}$ consists of all morphisms $m:X \to Y$ such that the map $Hom(m,A): Hom(Y,A) \to Hom(X,A)$ is surjective. We study this phenomenon. We show that, under mild assumptions, the reflective hull of such a space $A$ is the smallest $\mathcal{M}$-reflective subcategory of $\mathcal{B}$; furthermore, the opposite category of this reflective hull is equivalent to a reflective subcategory of the Eilenberg-Moore category $Set^{\mathbb T}, where ${\mathbb T}$ is the monad induced by the right adjoint $Hom(-,A): {\mathbb T}^{op} \to Set$. We also find conditions on a category $\mathcal{B}$ under which the pushout-stable $\mathcal{M}$-morphisms are of the form $\mathcal{A}^{Inj}$ for some category $\mathcal{A}$.
dc.description14 pages. This article will be revised and submitted for publication elsewhere
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204140
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204140
dc.identifierProceedings of the Ninth Prague Topological Symposium, (Prague, 2001), pp. 295--308, Topology Atlas, Toronto, 2002
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/63783
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.subject18A20, 18A40, 18B30, 18G05, 54B30, 54C10, 54C25
dc.titlePushout stability of embeddings, injectivity and categories of algebras
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