Implementing the biset category of finite groups

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Main Authors: Barakat, Mohamed, Talleux, Marc, Zickgraf, Fabian
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Published: 2026
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author Barakat, Mohamed
Talleux, Marc
Zickgraf, Fabian
author_facet Barakat, Mohamed
Talleux, Marc
Zickgraf, Fabian
contents We describe an implementation of the biset category of finite groups as a tower of standard categorical constructions, all of which are implemented in the software projec t CAP for algorithmic category theory. In particular, we describe the composition of bisets as a composition in a Kleisli category of some biadjunction monad. This composition relies on the universal property of the coequalizer completion of a group viewed as a groupoid on one object. Expressing this universal property offers an elegant categorical interpretation of the Schreier-Sims orbit algorithm. Indeed, the implementation relies on every aspect of the algorithm.
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spellingShingle Implementing the biset category of finite groups
Barakat, Mohamed
Talleux, Marc
Zickgraf, Fabian
Category Theory
Group Theory
We describe an implementation of the biset category of finite groups as a tower of standard categorical constructions, all of which are implemented in the software projec t CAP for algorithmic category theory. In particular, we describe the composition of bisets as a composition in a Kleisli category of some biadjunction monad. This composition relies on the universal property of the coequalizer completion of a group viewed as a groupoid on one object. Expressing this universal property offers an elegant categorical interpretation of the Schreier-Sims orbit algorithm. Indeed, the implementation relies on every aspect of the algorithm.
title Implementing the biset category of finite groups
topic Category Theory
Group Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18346