Groupoids, idempotents and pointwise inverses in relational categories

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(85)90061-1zbMath0555.18002MaRDI QIDQ760494

Jean-Pierre Olivier, Dany Serrato, Christian Mallol

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(85)90061-1

zbMATH Keywords

idempotents; regular elements; Dedekind categories; regular morphism; circuitless morphism; Guttman-Ferrers morphisms; idempotent category; morphisms between total orders; relational algebras; relational categories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

06A05: Total orders

18B35: Preorders, orders, domains and lattices (viewed as categories)

08C05: Categories of algebras

20L05: Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms)

18B10: Categories of spans/cospans, relations, or partial maps

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