We present a new characterisation of Goursat categories in terms of special kind of pushouts, that we call Goursat pushouts. This allows one to prove that, for a regular category, the Goursat property is actually equivalent to the validity of the denormalised 3-by-3 Lemma. Goursat pushouts are also useful to clarify, from a categorical perspective, the existence of the quaternary operations characterising 3-per...
We show that, under suitable left exact conditions on a re ection functor I, the construction of the associated universal I-central extension is reduced to the comprehensive factorization of a speci c internal functor. This observation produces some existence conditions which hold in particular for any re ection from a Mal'cev variety to any Birkho subvariety
A new method for realizing the first and second order cohomology groups of an internal abelian group in a Barr-exact category was introduced in [6] and [10]. The main role, in each level, is played by a direction functor. This approach can be generalized to any level n and produces a long exact cohomology sequence. By applying this method to Moore categories we show that they represent a good context for non-ab...
We characterise the double central extensions in a semi-abelian category in terms of commutator conditions. We prove that the third cohomology group H3(Z;A) of an object Z with coe cients in an abelian object A classi es the double central extensions of Z by A. ; FCT/Centro de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We prove that the category of internal groupoids Grd(E) is a reflective subcategory of the category Rg(E) of internal reflexive graphs in a regular Goursat category E with coequalisers: this implies that the category Grd(E) is itself regular Goursat. ; FCT; Centre of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra
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