Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4596412 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 2013 11 Pages PDF
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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