Hom-counting functions, combinatorial categories and related problems
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| author | Ceres, Antonio Costoya, Cristina Viruel, Antonio |
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| contents | Combinatorial categories satisfy a stronger form of Yoneda Lemma, namely, the isomorphism type of an object can be recovered by counting the number of homomorphisms from all other objects into it. In this work, we show that this property holds for sufficiently small categories by studying the algebra of homomorphism-counting functions. We present applications of the results to the isomorphism problem in group, graph and ring theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Hom-counting functions, combinatorial categories and related problems Ceres, Antonio Costoya, Cristina Viruel, Antonio Category Theory Group Theory Rings and Algebras Combinatorial categories satisfy a stronger form of Yoneda Lemma, namely, the isomorphism type of an object can be recovered by counting the number of homomorphisms from all other objects into it. In this work, we show that this property holds for sufficiently small categories by studying the algebra of homomorphism-counting functions. We present applications of the results to the isomorphism problem in group, graph and ring theory. |
| title | Hom-counting functions, combinatorial categories and related problems |
| topic | Category Theory Group Theory Rings and Algebras |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01501 |