"Pre-Galois categories and Fra\""iss\'e's theorem"

arXiv2301.13784MaRDI QIDQ6508635FDOQ6508635

Authors: Nate Harman, Andrew Snowden 

Abstract: Galois categories can be viewed as the combinatorial analog of Tannakian categories. We introduce the notion of pre-Galois category, which can be viewed as the combinatorial analog of pre-Tannakian categories. Given an oligomorphic group $G$, the category $mathbfS(G)$ of finitary smooth $G$-sets is pre-Galois. Our main theorem (approximately) says that these examples are exhaustive; this result is, in a sense, a reformulation of Fra"iss'e's theorem. We also introduce a more general class of B-categories, and give some examples of B-categories that are not pre-Galois using permutation classes. This work is motivated by certain applications to pre-Tannakian categories.

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