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Strongly separable morphisms in general categories. (English) Zbl 1315.18004

Summary: We clarify the relationship between separable and covering morphisms in general categories by introducing and studying an intermediate class of morphisms that we call strongly separable.

MSC:

18A32 Factorization systems, substructures, quotient structures, congruences, amalgams
18A40 Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.)
13B05 Galois theory and commutative ring extensions
14H30 Coverings of curves, fundamental group
54C10 Special maps on topological spaces (open, closed, perfect, etc.)
57M10 Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology