The 2-primary torsion on elliptic curves in the Z p -extensions of Q

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q and p a prime number. Denote by Q_p,∞ the Z_p-extension of Q. In this paper, we show that if p≠3, then where E(Q_p,∞)₍₂₎ is the 2-primary part of the group E(Q_p,∞) of Q_p,∞-rational points on E. More precisely, in case p=2, we completely classify E(Q_2,∞)₍₂₎ in terms of E(Q)₍₂₎; in case p≥5 (or in case p=3 and E(Q)₍₂₎≠{O}), we show that E(Q_p,∞)₍₂₎=E(Q)₍₂₎.     

The formal theory of Hopf algebras Part II: The case of Hopf algebras

Abstract

The category Hopf_R of Hopf algebras over a commutative unital ring R is analyzed with respect to its categorical properties. The main results are: (1) For every ring R the category Hopf_R is locally presentable, it is coreflective in the category of bialgebras over R, over every R-algebra there exists a cofree Hopf algebra. (2) If, in addition, R is absoluty flat, then Hopf_R is reflective in the category of bialgebras as well, and there exists a free Hopf algebra over every R-coalgebra. Similar results are obtained for relevant subcategories of Hopf_R. Moreover it is shown that, for every commutative unital ring R, the so-called “dual algebra functor” has a left adjoint and that, more generally, universal measuring coalgebras exist.     

THE EXPONENTIABLE MORPHISMS IN KELLEY ARE THE OPEN MAPS

Abstract

We show that in the category Kelley of Hausdorff k-spaces a map is exponentiable if and only if it is open and that any open surjection is an effective descent morphism.     

Geometric topological completions with universal final lifts

In this paper necessary and sufficient conditions are given on a concrete category over a category B so that it can be densely embedded (over B) into a geometric topological category E that admits certain universal final lifts. These conditions, as well as the class of universal final lifts, depend upon an a priori given full subcategory Δ of B. For example, E may have, depending upon Δ and B, universal coproducts or quotients or colimits. For appropriate Δ's, if B is cartesian closed then so is E.     

Matrices, machines and behaviors

Sabadini, Walters and others have developed a categorical, machine based theory of concurrency in which there are four essential aspects: a distributive category of data-types; a bicategory Mach whose objects are data types, and whose arrows are input-output machines built from data types; a semantic category (or categories) Sem, suitable to contain the behaviors of machines, and a functor, behavior: MachSem. Suitable operations on machines and semantics are found so that the behavior functor preserves these operations. Then, if each machine is decomposable into primitive machines using these operations, the behavior of a general machine is deducible from the behavior of its parts. The theory of non-deterministic finite state automata provides an example of the paradigm and also throws some light on the classical theory of finite state automata.We describe a bicategory whose objects are natural numbers, in which an arrow M: np is a finite state automaton with n input states, p output states, and some additional internal states; we require that no transitions begin at output states or end at input states. A machine is represented by an q+n by q+p matrix. The bicategory supports additional operations: non-deterministic choice, parallel interleaving, and feedback. Enough operations are imposed on machines to show that each machine may be obtained from some atomic ones by means of the operations.The semantic category is the (Bloom-Ésik) iteration theory Mat _(X whose objects are natural numbers and whose arrows from n to p are n×p matrices with entries in the semiring of languages. The behavior functor associates to a machine M: np a matrix |M| of languages, one language to each pair of input and output states. Behavior preserves composition, feedback, takes non-deterministic choice to union, and parallel-interleaving to shuffle. Thus, behavior gives a compositional semantics to a primitive notion of concurrent processes.This work has been supported by the Australian Research Council, by CEC under grant number 6317, ASMICS II, by Italian MURST, and by the Italian CNR.Visit to Sydney supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council.Presented at the European Colloquium of Category Theory, Tours, France, 25–31 July 1994.     

Galois actions on Q-curves and winding quotients

We prove two ``large images' results for the Galois representations attached to a degree d Q-curve E over a quadratic field K: if K is arbitrary, we prove maximality of the image for every prime p>13 not dividing d, provided that d is divisible by q (but d≠q) with q=2 or 3 or 5 or 7 or 13. If K is real we prove maximality of the image for every odd prime p not dividing d D, where D= disc(K), provided that E is a semistable Q-curve. In both cases we make the (standard) assumptions that E does not have potentially good reduction at all primes p∤6 and that d is square free. The first author is supported by BFM2003-06092.     

How Topological are Topological Groups?

Abstract

A Characterization of the category of topological groups is provided which does not refer to the category of topological spaces at all, but only to the category of uniform spaces. Similarly, the category of SIN-groups is characterized in a purely uniform way.     

ALGEBRAIC HULLS OF ADJOINT FUNCTORS AS INJECTIVE HULLS

Abstract

For each adjoint functor U: A → X where X is an (?, M)-category having enough ?-projectives, we construct an (?, M)-algebraic hull E: (A, U) → (Â, Û), i.e., (Â, Û) is (epsiv; M)-algebraic and E has a certain denseness property. We show that there is a conglomerate of functors over X with respect to which the (? M)-algebraic categories are exactly the injective objects and characterize (? M)-algebraic hulls as injective hulls.     

FUNCTORIAL PROPERTIES OF THE HOPF INVARIANT I

Abstract

Homotopy operations Θ: [ΣY, U] → [ΣY, V] which are natural in Y are considered. In particular a technique used in the definition of the Hopf invariant (as treated by Berstein-Hilton) shows that any fibration p: E → B with fiber V, when provided with a homotopy section of Ωp, determines such a homotopy operation [ΣY, E] → [ΣY, V]. More generally, starting from a track class of homotopies α º f ? β º g we adapt this fibration technique to construct a homotopy operation [ΣY, M(f,g)] → [ΣY, F _α * F _β] called a Hopf invariant. The intervening fibration in the definition of this Hopf invariant arises via the fiberwise join construction.     

On unitary down-closed regular monomorphisms of pomonoid actions

Abstract

In this paper we characterize injective objects in the category of S-posets and S-poset maps for a pomonoid S, with respect to the class of unitary down-closed embeddings. Also, the behaviour of this notion of injectivity with respect to products and coproducts is studied. Then we introduce the notion of weakly regular d-injectivity in arbitrary slices of the category of S-posets, which is applied to investigate the Baer criterion. Finally we present an example to show that these objects are not regular injective, in general.     

CARTESIAN CLOSEDNESS AND THE MCNEILLE COMPLETION OF AN INITIALLY STRUCTURED CATEGORY

Abstract

An adaptation of a theorem by Herrlich [5] shows that every initially structured category A can be fully embedded in a topological category A_C, which is, in fact, a MacNeille completion of A. It is then shown that A is Cartesian closed if and only if A_C is.

Also developed is the notion of a Cartesian closed initially structured (CCIS) hull of a category. The theory of the CCIS hull is analogous to that of the Cartesian closed topological (CCT) hull. It is proved that a category has a CCT hull-if and only if it has a CCIS hull; and this allows the list of conditions equivalent to the existence of a CCT hull to be supplemented.

Examples are given, drawn mainly from the various categories of binary relations.     

An elementary approach to ‘Algebra ∩ topology = compactness’

Herrlich and Strecker characterized the category Comp ₂ of compact Hausdorff spaces as the only nontrivial full epireflective subcategory in the category Top ₂ of all Hausdorff spaces that is concretely isomorphic to a variety in the sense of universal algebra including infinitary operations. The original proof of this result requires Noble's theorem, i.e. a space is compact Hausdorff iff every of its powers is normal, which is far from being elementary. Likewise, Petz' characterization of the class of compact Hausdorff spaces as the only nontrivial epireflective subcategory of Top ₂, which is closed under dense extensions (= epimorphisms in Top ₂) and strictly contained in Top ₂ is based on a result by Kattov stating that a space is compact Hausdorff iff its every closed subspace is H-closed. This note offers an elementary approach for both, instead.Presented at the European Colloquium of Category Theory, Tours, France, 25–31 July 1994.     

The denormalized 3×3 lemma

The classical 3×3 lemma holds in any regular protomodular category with a zero object. It is investigated here whether there is a “denormalized” version when the category no longer has a zero object, as, for instance, any slice category of the category , or any slice category of an abelian category. The answer is actually positive in the weaker context of regular Mal'cev categories.     

Vectorspacelike representation of absolute planes

The pointset E of an absolute plane can be provided with a binary operation "+" such that (E, +) becomes a loop and for each a E \ {o} the line [a] through o and a is a commutative subgroup of (E, +). Two elements a, b E \ {o} are called independent if [a] ∩ [b] = {o} and the absolute plane is called vectorspacelike if for any two independent elements we have E = [a] + [b] := {x + y | x [a], y [b]}. If is singular then (E, +) is a commutative group and is vectorspacelike iff is Euclidean. If is a hyperbolic plane then is vectorspacelike and in the continous case if a, b are independent, each point p has a unique representation as a quasilinear combination p = α · a + μ · b where α · a [a]and β · b [b] are points, α, β real numbers such that λ (o, λ · a) = |λ|· λ (o, a) and λ (o, μ · b) = |μ|. λ(o, b) and λ is the distance function. This work was partially supported by the Research Project of MIUR (Italian Ministery of Education and University) “Geometria combinatoria e sue applicazioni” and by the research group GNSAGA of INDAM. Dedicated to Walter Benz on the occasion of his 75 ^th birthday, in friendship     

ON THE EXISTENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE OF COMPLEMENTARY RADICAL AND SEMISIMPLE CLASSES

ABSTRACT

In certain categories of mathematical structures, non-trivial complementary radical classes (torsion classes or connectednesses) can be found. The question is why this is true for some but not for all categories. The answer depends on the embedding of trivial objects into nontrivial objects and is given by our main result: Any ‘reasonable’ category has no non-trivial complementary radical and semisimple classes if and only if for every trivial object T and every non-trivial object A there is a morphism T → A. Roughly, a ‘reasonable’ category in our sense is one with at least one object into which a terminal object can be embedded and has finite products, coproducts or lexicographic products.     

Equivariant completeness and regular injectivity of S-posets

Abstract

In this paper, considering the actions of a pomonoid S on posets, namely S-posets, we study some relations between equivariant completeness and regular injectivity of S-posets which lead to some homological classification results for pomonoids. In particular, we show that regular injectivity implies equivariant completeness, but the converse is true only if S is left simple. Finally, it is proved that regularly injective S-posets are exactly the complete and cofree-retract ones. Among other results, we also see that the Skornjakov and Baer criteria fail for regular injectivity of S-posets.     

ANOTHER CHARACTERIZATION OF BICOREFLECTIVE SUBCATEGORIES

Abstract

In this paper, the relation between the notion of a discrete functor (see [4]) and the notion of a fine functor (see [1]) is examined. As a generalization of the notion of a F-fine object (see [1]), discrete functors T: A → X are used to define K-fine objects, where K is a class of A-objects. It is shown that if T is in addition semi-topological, then (as for F-fine objects in a topological category, see [1]) the class of K-fine objects determines a bicoreflective subcategory of A. Moreover, it is shown that in co-complete, co-(well-powered) categories, the existence of bicoreflective subcategories is equivalent to the existence of functors that are both discrete and semi-topological.     

The n-generator property in rings of integer-valued polynomials determined by finite sets

Let D be an integral domain and E a non-empty finite subset of D. For n ≧ 2, we show that D has the n-generator property if and only if Int(E, D) has the n-generator property if and only if Int(E, D) has the strong (n + 1)-generator property. Thus, iterating the Int(E, D) construction cannot produce Prüfer domains whose finitely generated ideals require an ever larger number of generators. We also show that, for n ≧ 2, a non-zero polynomial f ∈Int(E, D) is a strong n-generator in Int(E, D) if and only if f (a) is a strong n-generator in D for all a ∈E. Received: 15 July 2004     

REMARKS ON THE WILANSKY PROPERTY

Abstract

A separable FK-space E has the Wilansky Property if whenever F is an FK-space contained and dense in E with F^β = E^β then F = E. In 1987 G. Bennett and W. Stadler independently showed that if E and E^B are both Bk—AK spaces then E has the Wilansky Property. In 1990 D. Noll relaxed the AK condition by arguing if E, E^f are Bk—Ad spaces and if E^β is separable then E has the Wilansky Property. In this note we show that Noll's result is in fact equivalent to the original Bennett/Stadler result.     

CATEGORICAL ASPECTS OF POWER ALGEBRAS

Abstract

The well-known power algebra construction is investigated from a categorical point of view. We establish basic categorical properties, from which we deduce the Homomorphism and Isomorphism Theorems for power algebras. We show that the power algebra construction induces a monad, called the power algebra monad, and determine the associated Eilenberg-Moore category as well as the associated Kleisli category.