Categorical aspects in projective geometry

Faure, Claude-Alain; Frolicher, Alfred

doi:10.1023/A:1008632119843

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Categorical aspects in projective geometry

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Faure, Claude-Alain; Frolicher, Alfred

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Applied categorical structures, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 87-103

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1998

Abstract

After introducing morphisms between projective geometries, some categorical questions are examined. It is shown that there are three kinds of embeddings and two kinds of quotients. Furthermore the morphisms decompose in a canonical way into four factors.

Keywords

Morphisms and homomorphisms of projective geometries
Subgeometries and subspaces
Quotient geometries
Initial and final morphisms
Sections and retractions
Decomposition of a morphism

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Faculté des sciences / Section de mathématiques

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FAURE, Claude-Alain, FROLICHER, Alfred. Categorical aspects in projective geometry. In: Applied categorical structures, 1998, vol. 6, n° 1, p. 87–103. doi: 10.1023/A:1008632119843

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DOI : 10.1023/A:1008632119843

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0927-2852

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