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Retracts and Injectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Shalom Feigelstock
Affiliation:
Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat-Gan, Israel
Aaron Klein
Affiliation:
Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat-Gan, Israel
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Abstract

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Embedding theorems are employed to show that many important categories do not possess non-trivial retracts or injectives. E.g., the categories of monoids, groups, rings, rings with unity, polynomial identity rings, nilpotent groups, solvable groups, and several varieties of groups.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1982

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