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Semi-abelian exact completions

Marino Gran

We characterize the categories which are projective covers of regular protomodular categories. Our result gives in particular a characterization of the categories with weak finite limits with the property that their exact completions are semi-abelian categories. As an application, we obtain a categorical proof of the recent characterization of semi-abelian varieties.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 4(2002), No. 1, pp. 175-189

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