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| author | Grilliette, Will |
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| contents | By applying simplification operations to categories of multigraphs, several natural graph operations are shown to demonstrate categorical issues. The replacement of an undirected edge with a directed cycle for digraphs admits both a left and a right adjoint, while the analogous operation for quivers only admits a left adjoint. The clique-replacement graph, intersection graph, and dual hypergraph fail to be functorial with traditional graph homomorphisms. The three failures are remedied by considering weak set-system homomorphisms, which form a category isomorphic to both the category of incidence structures and a lax comma category. |
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| spellingShingle | Simplification & Incidence: How an Incidence-focused Perspective Patches Category-theoretic Problems in Graph Theory Grilliette, Will Category Theory Combinatorics 05C20, 05C65, 18A25, 18A40 By applying simplification operations to categories of multigraphs, several natural graph operations are shown to demonstrate categorical issues. The replacement of an undirected edge with a directed cycle for digraphs admits both a left and a right adjoint, while the analogous operation for quivers only admits a left adjoint. The clique-replacement graph, intersection graph, and dual hypergraph fail to be functorial with traditional graph homomorphisms. The three failures are remedied by considering weak set-system homomorphisms, which form a category isomorphic to both the category of incidence structures and a lax comma category. |
| title | Simplification & Incidence: How an Incidence-focused Perspective Patches Category-theoretic Problems in Graph Theory |
| topic | Category Theory Combinatorics 05C20, 05C65, 18A25, 18A40 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13165 |