[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

categories: Re: lluf



The term commonly used for the corresponding concept to lluf for groupoids
is `wide'. I won't give a preference!
 `Representative subgroupoid' is used as for categories. Both occur in my
1968 book on topology, and I seem to remember the term wide was new. 

Ronnie Brown

Charles Wells wrote:
> 
> "Lluf" is "full" written backward.  Full means if the subcategory has two
> objects it has all the arrows between them.  Lluf means the subcategory has
> all the objects of the containing category but not necessary all the
> arrows.  Lluf is not a categorical notion.  The more useful notion is
> REPRESENTATIVE subcategory.  D is a representative subcategory of C if
> every object of C is isomorphic to an object of D.  I think some writers
> have used "extensive" for "representative" but I don't have a reference. I
> don't know the history of those words.
> 
> Charles Wells,
> Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
> Affiliate Scholar, Oberlin College
> Send all mail to:
> 105 South Cedar St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074, USA.
> email: charles@freude.com.
> home phone: 440 774 1926.
> professional website: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/wells/home.html
> personal website: http://www.oberlin.net/~cwells/index.html
> genealogical website:
> http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/e/l/Charles-Wells/
> NE Ohio Sacred Harp website: http://www.oberlin.net/~cwells/sh.htm

-- 
 Professor Emeritus R. Brown,
 School of Informatics, Mathematics Division,
 University of Wales, Bangor
 Dean St., Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT,
 United Kingdom
 Tel. direct:+44 1248 382474|office:     382681
 fax: +44 1248 361429
  World Wide Web: home page:
 http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/
 (Links to survey articles: Higher dimensional group theory
  Groupoids and crossed objects in algebraic topology)

 Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics CDRom Version 1.1
 http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/CDadvert.html
 Symbolic Sculpture and Mathematics:
 http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/sculmath/
 Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics
 http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/