From: "Ronnie Brown" <Ronnie@LL319dg.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: ramifications of Goldblatt's notion of a skeleton of a category
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:07:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FxMvp-0002xx-7f@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Following on from Fred Linton's comment, an easy example is groupoids. For a
connected groupoid G, any vertex (object) group
G(x)= G(x,x) is skeletal in G. See my book:
www.bangor.ac.uk/r.brown/topgpds.html
(since I do all the publicity, I have to take every opportunity....!)
For many mathematicians, this meant that `groupoids reduced to groups'. But
this reduction involves choices, and so cannot be made natural, which takes
us back to the first paper on categories by E-M!
Heller commented to me in the 1980s that on this reductionist basis, vector
spaces reduce to a cardinality. But, as he said, the classification of
vector spaces with n endomorphisms is interesting for n=1, hard for n=2, and
unknown for n=3.
I have not seen a classification of groupoids with one endomorphism!
Ronnie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Galchin Vasili" <vigalchin@gmail.com>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:29 AM
Subject: categories: ramifications of Goldblatt's notion of a skeleton of a
category
> Hello,
>
> Rob Goldblatt in section 9.2 of his book "Topoi: The Categorical
> Analysis of
> Logic" introduces the notion of a "skeleton of a category C" which he
> defines as a "full
> subcategory C-sub-zero of C that is skeletal, and such that each C-object
> is
> isomorphic
> to one and only one C-sub-zero object". This statement seems to imply that
> we can have an "operator":
>
> skel: CAT -> CAT where CAT is the categories of (small) categories
>
> such that
>
> 1) skel is idempotent on any member of C of CAT, i.e.
> ]
> skel (skel (C)) = skel (C)
>
> 2) skel (C) = a "maximal" skeleton of C.
>
> I am struggling with
>
> 1) what "maximal" means in this case? E.g. is there some kind of order
> on
> all the
> skeletons of category C?
>
> 2) would the "operator" skel be a functor?
>
>
> Kind regards, Bill Halchin
>
>
>
>
>
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2006-07-03 11:07 Ronnie Brown [this message]
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2006-07-04 16:14 Bruce Bartlett
2006-07-01 23:14 Fred E.J. Linton
2006-06-29 5:29 Galchin Vasili
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