Gradings, smash products and Galois coverings of a small category

arXiv1203.5905MaRDI QIDQ6231883FDOQ6231883

Publication date: 27 March 2012

Abstract: In this paper we develop the theory of coverings of a small connected category B. We show that the category of Galois coverings of B is equivalent to the category of Galois coverings of its fundamental groupoid. Making use of effective gradings of B we explicitly construct Galois coverings through a smash product analogous to the one considered in the linear case. In particular, the universal cover of B can be obtained from its fundamental groupoid.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization systems, substructures, quotient structures, congruences, amalgams (18A32) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Special properties of functors (faithful, full, etc.) (18A22)

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