This work introduces tools, from the field of category theory, that make it possible to tackle until now unsolvable representation problems (determination of the range of a given functor). The basic idea is: if a functor lifts many objects, then it also lifts many (poset-indexed) diagrams.
| ISBN: | 9783642217739 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 2011 |
| Author: | Pierre Gillibert, F Wehrung |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 158 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Algebra Algebraic topology Mathematical logic Mathematical foundations |