Grading a path-category quotient by homogeneous relations #
A family of homogeneous relations generates a homogeneous two-sided ideal. The categorical quotient therefore inherits the path-length grading by taking the images of the source components. Composition adds degrees in the quotient, and degree zero is unchanged.
The two-sided linear ideal generated by a family of path-category relations.
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The quotient functor from the free linear path category.
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An original vertex as an object of the quotient category.
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The quotient map on a Hom space as a linear map.
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The quotient map is surjective on every Hom space.
The kernel of the quotient map is exactly the generated relation submodule.
The degree-n part of a quotient Hom space is the image of the
path-length-n part upstairs.
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Homogeneous relations give an internal path-length decomposition of each quotient Hom space.
Composition in a homogeneous relation quotient adds path length.
Distinct vertices still have zero degree-zero quotient morphisms.
At a vertex, the quotient degree-zero part consists exactly of scalar multiples of the identity.
If every path-basis two-sided composite of a relation has positive length, then the homogeneous quotient does not kill any vertex identity.