arXiv · 2602.20755
The direction functor for Schreier extensions of monoids
Abstract
We observe that the process of associating an action to any Schreier extension of monoids with commutative and cancellative kernel is functorial. We show that this functor is a generalisation of the direction functor, used to give a categorical description of non-abelian cohomology in terms of extensions. We further prove that our functor is a conservative, product preserving cofibration and from this we conclude that its fibres are endowed with a canonical symmetric monoidal structure. The commutative monoids obtained as connected components of these symmetric monoidal categories are isomorphic to Patchkoria second cohomology monoids of a monoid with coefficients in semimodules.
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Stefano Ambra, Andrea Montoli, Diana Rodelo. 2026-02-24. The direction functor for Schreier extensions of monoids. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20755
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