Abstract
We give necessary and sufficient conditions on class S of maps of a category C so that a good calculus of fractions is possible in C[S -1], and a geometric characterization of the communitative diagrams in the category of fractions. These conditions are also described simply in terms of Grothendiek topologies.
We characterize the categories which arise in this manner by the fact that the functor C → C[S -1] is uniformly flat and give some applications of this result.
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Bénabou, J. Some geometric aspects of the calculus of fractions. Appl Categor Struct 4, 139–165 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122249
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122249