Skip to content

sdg: quotients and fermat-hadamard rings#40

Draft
stollluk wants to merge 6 commits intofelixwellen:mainfrom
stollluk:main
Draft

sdg: quotients and fermat-hadamard rings#40
stollluk wants to merge 6 commits intofelixwellen:mainfrom
stollluk:main

Conversation

@stollluk
Copy link
Contributor

Some material on quotients by congruence relations over endomorphism theories and the relationship with ring-theoeretic ideals.

@stollluk
Copy link
Contributor Author

stollluk commented Aug 23, 2024

Given an extension T of the theory of rings, every T-congruence relation on a T-algebra A induces an ideal of the
underlying ring of A. It is well-known that the converse holds if T is a Fermat theory. Maybe one could extend this to a
characterization of Fermat theories? At least the existence of Hadamard quotients (as opposed to their uniqueness)
follows from the assumption that every ideal on the underlying ring of a T-algebra induces a T-congruence.

@felixwellen
Copy link
Owner

The statement alluded to in the comment above is prop. 1.9 in the sdg notes (state of this PR/commit).

@markrd-williams
Copy link

The property you suggested, regularity of generators of free algebras seems reasonable to me.

The property of $X-Y$ being regular in $F(n+2)$ reduces to $X$ being regular in $F(n+2)$, by an automorphism swapping $X$ and $X-Y$. Further it is enough to ask for $X$ being regular in $F(1)$ to get this property.

This reads as some sort of continuity condition to me, if the base ring is a field, then $X$ regular says: for all $f : R \to R$ s.t $f(r) = 0$ for all $r \neq 0$ then $f = 0$.

Every algebraic theory T can be recovered as
endomorphism theory of a generic T-algebra in an
appropriate Grothendieck topos with a
*subcanonical* topology.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants