Categories meet semigroups in various ways
Abstract
This paper touches on several interaction points of semigroups and constructions from category theory: An adjunction is established between categories with selected arrows and semigroups. Regular semigroups are characterized by split epi - split mono factorization of the Karoubi envelope. We investigate how semigroupads (monads without requirement of unit transformation) map semigroups to semigroups and ensure certain properties provided they hold on meta level.
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