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Subsimple, injective, retract

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Shalom Feigelstock
Affiliation:
Bar-Ilan University
Aaron Klein
Affiliation:
Ramat-Gan Israel 52100
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Simple and subsimple objects were introduced in [6]. It was shown that if there are enough simple objects in a category , then there is no room for injectives in . This idea was exploited in [6] and [2] to show that several classes of groups, rings and classes belonging to other categories do not possess non-trivial injectives or retracts. In this note, the above results will be strengthened by introducing a weaker condition than subsimple of [6]. As a consequence, and by employing some embedding theorems, we show that some important classes do not possess non-trivial retracts.

All the categories are assumed to have a zero object.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1985

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