Flatness properties of acts over semigroups

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1 Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

2 Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

3 Hotel Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Abstract

In this paper we study flatness properties (pullback flatness, limit flatness, finite limit flatness) of acts over semigroups. These are defined by requiring preservation of certain limits from the functor of tensor multiplication by a given act. We give a description of firm pullback flat acts using Conditions (P) and (E). We also study pure epimorphisms and their connections to finitely presented acts and pullback flat acts. We study these flatness properties in the category of all acts, as well as in the category of unitary acts and in the category of firm acts, which arise naturally in the Morita theory of semigroups. 

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Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications
Volume 15, Issue 1
July 2021
Pages 59-92

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