On embedding categories in groupoids

DOI10.1017/S0305004108001345MaRDI QIDQ3524084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Johnstone

Publication date 8 September 2008

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004108001345

zbMATH Keywords

group embeddabilitygroup embeddable semigroupsLambek conditionsMalcev conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups, groups (viewed as categories) (18B40) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

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