Galois and universal coverings of linear categories and fiber products. (Q2885385)

The paper under review studies fiber products of coverings of \(k\)-categories, where \(k\) is a commutative ring. The two main results are Theorem 3.9, which characterizes a Galois covering as one whose fiber product with itself is trivial; and Theorem 3.10, which characterizes a universal covering as a connected covering whose fiber product with any Galois covering is trivial.NEWLINENEWLINE The paper contains a well-written, concise summary of the background, including a key example and references to more examples. The introduction also provides wider context for the results by explaining the relation to other recent work by the authors on the ``intrinsic fundamental group'' of a \(k\)-category, and also the relation to fundamental groups of finite-dimensional algebras used by Bongartz, Gabriel, Martínez-Villa, and de la Peña. These qualities make it nicely readable to non-experts in coverings.