Covering functors without groups

Covering functors without groups

Coverings in the representation theory of algebras were introduced for the Auslander-Reiten quiver of a representation finite algebra in [15] and later for finite dimensional algebras in [2, 7, 11]. The best understood class of covering functors is that of Galois covering functors F : A → B determined by the action of a group of automorphisms of A. In this work we introduce the balanced coverin...

Ext Groups and Ext Functors

If A and B are Abelian groups, then Hom(A,B) is also an Abelian group under pointwise addition of functions. In this section we will see how Hom gives rise to classes of functors. Let A denote the category of Abelian groups. A covariant functor T : A → A associates to every Abelian group A an Abelian group T (A), and for every homomorphism f : A → B a homomorphism T (f) : T (A)→ T (B), such tha...

Extension between functors from groups

Motivated in part by the study of the stable homology of automorphism groups of free groups, we consider cohomological calculations in the category F(gr) of functors from finitely generated free groups to abelian groups. In particular, we compute the groups Ext F(gr) (T ◦a, T◦a) where a is the abelianization functor and T is the n-th tensor power functor for abelian groups. These groups are sho...

Generalized Covering Groups and Direct Limits

Covering Functors, Skew Group Categories and Derived Equivalences

Abstract. Let G be a group of automorphisms of a category C. We give a definition for a functor F : C → C to be a G-covering and three constructions of the orbit category C/G, which generalizes the notion of a Galois covering of locally finitedimensional categories with group G whose action on C is free and locally bonded. Here C/G is defined for any category C and does not require that the act...