Central extensions of associative algebras and weakly action representable categories
Central extensions of associative algebras and weakly action representable categories
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2022
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G. Janelidze
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G. Janelidze
. A central extension is a regular epimorphism in a Barr exact cat- egory C satisfying suitable conditions involving a given Birkhoff subcategory of C (joint work with G. M. Kelly, 1994). In this paper we take C to be the category of (not-necessarily-unital) algebras over a (unital) commutative ring and consider central extensions with respect to the category of commutative algebras. We propose a new approach that avoids the intermediate notion of central extension due to A. Fr¨ohlich in showing that α : A → B is a central extension if and only if aa ′ = a ′ a for all a,a ′ ∈ A with α ( a ′ ) = 0. This approach motivates introducing what we call weakly action representable cat- egories , and we show that such categories are always action accessible. We also make remarks on what we call initial weak representations of actions and formulate several open questions.