Torsion theories and coverings of preordered groups

Ordered groups (06F15) Factorization systems, substructures, quotient structures, congruences, amalgams (18A32) Abelian categories, Grothendieck categories (18E10) Torsion theories, radicals (18E40) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50)

Abstract: In this article we explore a non-abelian torsion theory in the category of preordered groups: the objects of its torsion-free subcategory are the partially ordered groups, whereas the objects of the torsion subcategory are groups (with the total order). The reflector from the category of preordered groups to this torsion-free subcategory has stable units, and we prove that it induces a monotone-light factorization system. We describe the coverings relative to the Galois structure naturally associated with this reflector, and explain how these coverings can be classified as internal actions of a Galois groupoid. Finally, we prove that in the category of preordered groups there is also a pretorsion theory, whose torsion subcategory can be identified with a category of internal groups. This latter is precisely the subcategory of protomodular objects in the category of preordered groups, as recently discovered by Clementino, Martins-Ferreira, and Montoli.

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This article is a contribution to the abstract categorical study of preordered groups. It proves especially that the pair of full subcategories of \textit{groups} (endowed with the trivial preorder: \(g\le h\) for all \(g, h\)) and of \textit{partially ordered groups} form a \textit{torsion theory}, in the non-abelian sense [\textit{M. Clementino} et al., J. Algebra 305, No. 1, 98--129 (2006; Zbl 1121.18010)]. It studies also categorical Galois theoretic aspects of preordered groups.

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