Closedness properties of internal relations IV: Expressing additivity of a category via subtractivity

dc.creatorJanelidze, Zurab
dc.date2006-10-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:28:38Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:28:38Z
dc.descriptionThe notion of a subtractive category, recently introduced by the author, is a ``categorical version'' of the notion of a (pointed) subtractive variety of universal algebras, due to A. Ursini. We show that a subtractive variety $\C$, whose theory contains a unique constant, is abelian (i.e. $\C$ is the variety of modules over a fixed ring), if and only if the dual category $\C^\mathrm{op}$ of $\C$, is subtractive. More generally, we show that $\C$ is additive if and only if both $\C$ and $\C^\mathrm{op}$ are subtractive, where $\C$ is an arbitrary finitely complete pointed category, with binary sums, and such that each morphism $f$ in $\C$ can be presented as a composite $f=me$, where $m$ is a monomorphism and $e$ is an epimorphism.
dc.descriptionto be published in "Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures"
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610110
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610110
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/117808
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.titleClosedness properties of internal relations IV: Expressing additivity of a category via subtractivity
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