A new characterisation of groups amongst monoids

DOI10.1007/S10485-016-9471-XMaRDI QIDQ1681850zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xabier García-Martínez

Publication date 24 November 2017

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02490

zbMATH Keywords

monoidprotomodular objectstrongly epimorphic pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equational classes, universal algebra in model theory (03C05) Categories of algebras (08C05) Category of groups (20J15) Categorical algebra (18E99)

Abstract: We prove that a monoid $M$ is a group if and only if, in the category of monoids, all points over $M$ are strong. This sharpens and greatly simplifies a result of Montoli, Rodelo and Van der Linden which characterises groups amongst monoids as the protomodular objects.

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