Baer invariants in semi-abelian categories I: General theory

Theory and Applications of Categories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-33

  Everaert, T ^a   Van Der Linden, T ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Baer invariant; Centrality; Exact, protomodular, semi abelian category; Nilpotency

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644386519     PISSN: 1201561X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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