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Categorical Aspects in Projective Geometry

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After introducing morphisms between projective geometries, some categorical questions are examined. It is shown that there are three kinds of embeddings and two kinds of quotients. Furthermore the morphisms decompose in a canonical way into four factors.

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  1. Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, Case postale 240, CH-1211, Genève 24, Switzerland

    Claude-Alain Faure & Alfred Frölicher

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Faure, CA., Frölicher, A. Categorical Aspects in Projective Geometry. Applied Categorical Structures 6, 87–103 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008632119843

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