Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4596412 | Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We functorially characterize groupoids as special dagger Frobenius algebras in the category of sets and relations. This is then generalized to a non-unital setting, by establishing an adjunction between H*-algebras in the category of sets and relations, and locally cancellative regular semigroupoids. Finally, we study a universal passage from the former setting to the latter.
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