Covering morphisms of internal groupoids in the models of a semi-abelian theory

Abstract

In this paper, for given an algebraic theory $T$ whose category $C$ of models is semi-abelian, we consider the topological models of $T$ called topological $T$-algebras and obtain some results related to the fundamental groups of topological $T$-algebras. We also deal with the internal groupoid structure in the category of models providing that the fundamental groupoid deduces a functor from topological $T$-algebras to the internal groupoids in $C$ and prove a criterion for the lifting of such an internal groupoid structure to the covering groupoids.