Ordered groups as a tensor category

DOI10.2140/PJM.2018.294.181zbMATH Open1388.18007arXiv1704.02666OpenAlexW3101231551MaRDI QIDQ1692385FDOQ1692385

Authors: Dale Rolfsen 

Publication date: 9 January 2018

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is a classical theorem that the free product of ordered groups is orderable. In this note we show that, using a method of G. Bergman, an ordering of the free product can be constructed in a functorial manner, in the category of ordered groups and order-preserving homomorphisms. With this functor interpreted as a tensor product this category becomes a tensor (or monoidal) category. Moreover, if $O(G)$ denotes the space of orderings of the group $G$ with the natural topology, then for fixed groups $F$ and $G$ our construction can be considered a function $O(F)imesO(G)oO(F\ast G)$. We show that this function is continuous and injective. Similar results hold for left-ordered groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02666

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zbMATH Keywords

free productmonoidal categoryordered group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Ordered groups (06F15) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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