Span composition using fake pullbacks

Ross Street*

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    Abstract

    The construction of a category of spans can be made in some categories A which do not have pullbacks in the traditional sense. The PROP for monoids is a good example of such an A . The 2012 book concerning homological algebra by Marco Grandis gives the proof of associativity of relations in a Puppe-exact category based on a 1967 paper of M.’. Calenko. The proof here is a restructuring of that proof in the spirit of the first sentence of this Abstract. We observe that these relations are spans of EM-spans and that EM-spans admit fake pullbacks so that spans of EM-spans compose. Our setting is more general than Puppe-exact categories. We mention the formalism of distributive laws which, in a generalized form, would cover our setting.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)102-117
    Number of pages16
    JournalTheory and Applications of Categories
    Volume36
    Issue number4
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

    Keywords

    • span
    • partial map
    • factorization system
    • relation
    • Puppe exact category

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