Abstract
AbstractWe provide a new, unified approach to the necessary and sufficient conditions found by Mal'cev (1939) and by Lambek (1951) for embeddability of a semigroup in a group, and also show that each provides a necessary and sufficient set of conditions for the embeddability of a category in a groupoid. We show that all such conditions, and more besides, may be derived in a uniform way from a particular class of directed graphs which we call quadrangle clubs, and we prove a number of results (extending those of Mal'cev, Lambek, Bush and Krstić) on which families of quadrangle clubs provide sufficient conditions for embeddability.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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