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Two monads on the category of graphs

  • Gejza Jenča EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: March 18, 2019
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Abstract

We introduce two monads on the category of graphs and prove that their Eilenberg-Moore categories are isomorphic to the category of perfect matchings and the category of partial Steiner triple systems, respectively. As a simple application of these results, we describe the product in the categories of perfect matchings and partial Steiner triple systems.


This research is supported by grants VEGA 2/0069/16, 1/0420/15, Slovakia and by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contracts APVV-14-0013, APVV-16-0073.


  1. (Communicated by Peter Horák)

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Received: 2017-11-03
Accepted: 2018-04-05
Published Online: 2019-03-18
Published in Print: 2019-04-24

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