From: Gaunce Lewis <lglewis@syr.edu>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Cc: rdp@imada.sdu.dk
Subject: looking for references
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:01:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990827154835.00987a70@ichthus.syr.edu> (raw)
A colleague in geometric topology has encountered a categorical
construction for which he would like some literature references. He has
asked me to pass this request on to this mailing list. Roughly speaking,
the construction takes a category carrying an action by a monoid and forms
an associated "orbit" category. However, rather than identifying objects
in the same orbit, it inserts a canonical isomorphism between them.
Here are the details:
Let M be a monoid which is also a poset. Assume that the multiplication on
M preserves the order and that the unit u for the multiplication on M is an
initial element for the poset. Think of M as a category with morphisms
derived from the poset structure. Let C be any category and let F : M x C
-> C be a functor which gives an action of M on C. For each m in M and
each c in C, there is a map t(m,c) from c to F(m,c) obtained by applying F
to the poset relation u \leq m and the identity map on c. Form the
category of fractions of C in which all the maps t(m,c) have been
inverted. Note that it looks somewhat like the orbit category C/M, but
with the objects in the same orbit linked by canonical isomorphisms
(derived from the t(m,c)) rather than identified.
Has anyone seen this construction before? Is there literature on it?
Thanks for any help on this,
Gaunce Lewis
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