Questions tagged [galois-connections]

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Galois connection arising from discussion of flat module and pure exact sequence.

There is somewhat of symmetry in the definition of flat module and pure short exact sequence which can be made precise as follows. Let $\mathcal{R}$ be the class of all right $R$-modules, $\mathcal{S}$ be the class of all short exact sequences of…
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The Galois connection between topological closure and topological interior

[Update: I changed the question so that $-$ is only applied to closed sets and $\circ$ is only applied to open sets.] Let $X$ be a topological space with open sets $\mathcal{O}\subseteq 2^X$ and closed sets $\mathcal{C}\subseteq 2^X$. Consider the…
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Galois theory, had it solved any major problems beside its original applications to classical problems?

Galois theory, had it solved any major problems beside its original (classical) applications to roots of a fifth (or higher) degree polynomial equation (solvable algebraic equations and constructible polygons) ? I understand that Galois Theory had…
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Charecterization of Topologies via Galois Connections

Let $X$ and $Y$ be two sets and let $F: \mathcal{P}(X) \to \mathcal{P}(Y)$ and $G: \mathcal{P}(Y) \to \mathcal{P}(X)$ be two set functions that satisfy $$F(A) \subseteq B \iff A \subseteq G(B). \tag{1}$$ That is, the pair $F$ and $G$ constitute a…
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Adjoint to multiplication in a GCD lattice

Consider the lattice on the nonzero natural numbers where the meet $a \wedge b $ is defined to be the greatest common divisor of $a$ and $b$, and the join $a \vee b$ is the least common multiple. There's a partial order in that $ a \leq b \equiv a…
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Galois connection and order-isomorphisms

Assume that we have a Galois connection formed by two monotone maps $f\colon X\to Y$ and $g\colon Y\to X$. I want to know whether the following statement is true: if $f$ is bijective, then $f$ is an order-isomorphism, that is, $f(x)\leq f(y)$…
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Do any familiar adjunctions arise from this construction?

I was pondering an answer that user Andreas Blass provided to an old question of mine and wondered if the following construction cropped up anywhere other than the example I will provide. For any set $X$, let $\mathscr P(X)$ be the category whose…
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Computing all the Galois groups of reducible polynomials of degree 5 over $\mathbb{Q}$

in my Algebra class, it was given as an exercise to find all possible Galois groups of reducible polynomials of degree 5 over $\mathbb{Q}$ without repeated roots. Where, for a field $F$, we call the Galois group of a polynomial $f(x)\in F[x]$ the…
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Image of sup/inf under Galois connection between lattices

This is Lemma 2.4 in Pete Clark's notes on commutative algebra. Given two posets $(X,\le)$ and $(Y,\le)$, an (antitone) Galois connection between $X$ and $Y$ is a pair of maps $F:X\to Y$ and $G:Y\to X$ such that $F$ and $G$ are antitone (=…
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Does $\mathcal C=\mathrm{Pol}(\mathrm{Inv}(\mathcal C))$ hold for clones on an infinite set?

I would like to know, whether the following theorem holds also for clones on an infinite set? Theorem (Geiger; Bodnarcuk, Kaluznin, Kotov, Romov). Let $A$ be a finite set, then $$\mathrm{Clo}(A)=\mathrm{Pol}(\mathrm{Inv}(\mathbf A)). $$ It is…
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Trivial covering of a topological space

We have a connected topological space $X$ and $p:E\to X$ a Galois covering projection with $E$ not necessarily connected, let us call $\text{Aut}(E/X)=G$. Suppose it is given that every homomorphism of $\pi_1(X,x)\to G$ is trivial. Then we have to…
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A reference for an explicit statement of the Galois correspondence in a Galois category

The definition of a Galois category was cooked up intentionally to create the general setting where Galois correspondences appear. There are plenty of the resources (e.g. here and here) that go into detail about Galois categories, their properties,…
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Condition for Being Galois

I am thinking about the following excerpt of Patrick Morandi's "Field and Galois Theory" from chapter 1 section 2, page 21: Here, $K$ is a field, and $\mathcal{F}(G)$ denotes the subfield $\{ x \in K : \sigma (x) = x\ \forall x \in G \}$ of $K$.…
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Galois comodules

I tried to figure out why Galois comodules is a generalization of several Galois aspects, but I could not? I am really interested in Comodule theory, and I am very curious to know the answer for this question. I know Galois theory is a nice…
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Is there a way to state the fundamental theorem of Galois theory in a categorical sense?

I will state the fundamental theorem of Galois theory to make things clear. Let $F/K$ be a finite dimensional Galois extension. Let $A$ be the set of all intermediate fields of $F/K$, and let $B$ be the set of all subgroups of…
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