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Hi everyone, I'm John Turula, one of the authors of Topology, a Categorical Approach.
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Hi everyone, I'm John Turula, one of the authors of Topology, a Categorical Approach.
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In this video, I'm going to talk about the category of G-sets for a fixed group G.
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My motivation for talking about the category of G-sets is topological because the category
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of covering spaces of a topological space B is isomorphic to the category of G sets, where G is the fundamental group of the base space.
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So you can understand everything about covering spaces in topology by understanding the category of G sets for a fixed group G.
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Now what is this category?
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Well, the objects are sets together with a function from S cross G into S that's compatible with the group operations.
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Here I've written out what it means.
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It means that if I act on an element S in my set by a group element G and then by H, it's the same as first multiplying the group elements G, H, and then acting on the set.
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And the second condition is that the identity element of the group acts as the identity on the set.
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And it's worth pointing out that here I'm considering right group actions.
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Those are the ones relevant for the theory of covering spaces.
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You could also consider the parallel discussion for left group actions.
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Now, what are morphisms between G sets?
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Well, a morphism from a G set S to a G set T is a function from S to T that's compatible with the actions, and I've written here what that means.
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Now there are a couple of important definitions to know when you have a G set.
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So suppose S is a G set.
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One is the stabilizer of an element of that set.
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That's equal to the set of all elements in the group that fix the element in the set.
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Now you can check that the stabilizer of any element is a subgroup of your group G.
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And the other important definition is what is the orbit of an element A from your set S.
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The orbit of A is just the set of all elements in your set S that can be obtained by acting on that one element A by an element of the group G.
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So we have these two important definitions associated to an element in your set in your G set S.
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One is the stabilizer of that element, it's a subgroup of G, and the other is the orbit of that element, which is a subset of S.
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There's one more piece of terminology I want to share, which is what it means for G to act transitively.
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This is the same as saying that the entire set S consists of one orbit.
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And more generally, the orbits of S partition the set S, which proves this theorem, that every G set decomposes into the disjoint union of sets on which G acts transitively.
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And so now we can ask the question, what is a typical G set on which G acts transitively look like?
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Well, every G set S on which G acts transitively is isomorphic to G mod H as a G set,
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where G mod H is the set of right cosets of a subgroup H of the group G, and in fact H is related to the set because it's the stabilizer of an element in that set.
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How do you prove it?
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Well, start by taking any element, little s, from your G set capital S, and let H be the stabilizer subgroup of that element.
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Then I'm going to define a map from
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the cosets of the stabilizer, a map from G mod H, to the set S by sending the coset H times a little G to the element A acted on by G.
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Now, you have to check that this map is well-defined, it's not hard,
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from which it will follow pretty easily that it's a bijection, and then you have to check that it's equivariant with respect to the g action, where the g action on the set of cosets is just defined by right multiplication.
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Here in my notes, I've written hg goes to ag.
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I should have written hg goes to sg.
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Anyway, there's a detail in this proof that I think is worth looking a little closer at, which is that we picked h to be the stabilizer of one element s.
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The stabilizer of two different elements in a G set on which G acts transitively, let's say A and A prime, are conjugate subgroups.
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In other words, if A prime can be obtained from A by the action of little g, then the stabilizer of A prime is G inverse times the stabilizer of A times little g.
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Stabilizer subgroups are conjugate subgroups in the group G, which implies that as G sets, G mod H and G mod G inverse HG are isomorphic as G sets.
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Now there's another detail that's worth pointing out, which is namely that if you have a G set S on which G acts transitively, we know that it's isomorphic to G mod h where h is the stabilizer subgroup.
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But we know how many elements are in g mod h.
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We know how many cosets there are.
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And so you get a theorem which is known as the orbit stabilizer theorem.
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A great but really useful theorem in mathematics.
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And what it says is when gx transitively on a set s, then the cardinality of the orbit of any element times the cardinality of the stabilizer of that element equals the cardinality of the group G.
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So we're starting to get a really good picture of what the category of G sets looks like.
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So the first observation is that every G set decomposes into the disjoint union of G sets on which G acts transitively.
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In this category, disjoint union are co-products and sets on which G act transitively are sometimes called homogeneous G sets.
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So all the objects of this category are co-products of homogeneous G sets.
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then each homogeneous G set itself is isomorphic to one of the form G mod H for a subgroup H of G.
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So that tells us what the objects are in this category.
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And now we just need to look a little closer at the morphisms, which we know are just equivariant set maps.
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But then the question is, does that have a nice description in terms of the group structure of G?
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and we'll find out that yes indeed it does.
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So I think the first observation to make is that if you have an equivariant function between two homogeneous G sets,
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because G acts transitively on those sets, I only need to tell you what happens to one element.
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So if you have a morphism of G sets from G mod H to G mod K, I just need to tell you what F does to one coset and I might as well do that for the coset h.
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So h is going to have to go to some coset of k.
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Let's say it's k times g for some g in the group g.
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So this entire equivariant map f is determined by one element little g in the group.
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Now I'm actually defining a map on these equivalence classes and so not every element g is going to actually give a well-defined map.
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You can check that in order for this map f determined by this element little g to be well defined, g is going to have to satisfy a condition related to the subgroups h and k.
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And in fact, the condition, the way I like to write the condition, is that if you conjugate the subgroup h by g, you have to land inside the subgroup k.
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And there's some redundancy in this description of equivariant g maps between g mod h and g mod k by elements of G.
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In particular, you can check that if the coset KG and the coset KG' are the same, then the two maps you get by sending H to KG and H to KG' are identical.
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Now, let's just put that redundancy aside for a moment and make the following conclusion,
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that there exists a morphism of G sets from G mod H to G mod K, if and only if there's an element, little G, in the group so that G inverse H, G sits inside the subgroup K.
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Now let's consider the case that the subgroup K equals the subgroup H, so that we're considering the group of automorphisms of G mod H as a G set.
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Now considering the redundancy, what we find is a very nice theorem,
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namely that the group of automorphisms of g mod h as a g set is isomorphic to the normalizer of the subgroup h modulo h.
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And the proof is just an application of what we've already described as the morphisms between two homogeneous G sets of the form G mod H and G mod K.
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So in other words,
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substituting K equals H into those discussions tells us that the map from G mod H into G mod H is determined by one element in the group G,
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and that element in the group G has to satisfy G inverse HG sits inside of H.
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Moreover, two such maps will be equal if the coset HG equals the coset HG prime,
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which is the same as saying that G times G prime inverse is in the subgroup H.
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And the conclusion then is that the set of morphisms divided by the ones that are equal give you the normalizer of H modulo h.
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And then you can check that this is an isomorphism of groups.
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The automorphisms of a g set always form a group, and this quotient of the normalizer of h by h is a group, and these are isomorphic groups.
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And so this completes all the details that I wanted to give that gives a nice description of the category of G sets.
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First, every G set decomposes into the co-product of homogeneous G sets.
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The homogeneous G sets look like the quotient of G mod a subgroup H.
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At the very beginning, G mod the identity, just G, maps to every other G set because the identity sits inside of every subgroup H.
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All of these G sets map to the trivial G set, which is what happens when the stabilizer subgroup is all of G.
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And then you'll want to know what the automorphisms of one of these homogeneous G sets are.
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And so if you fix a subgroup H, the automorphisms of G mod H are just isomorphic to the group, the normalizer of H mod H.
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So that finishes the details of what I wanted to say about the category of G sets.
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You can read about group actions in most any algebra book.
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I wanted to pull together all the just the little pieces in a simple way that give you this picture of the category of G sets because this is equivalent to the category of covering spaces where you apply where G is the fundamental group of the base space.
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And so to really understand the theory of covering spaces you have to understand this category of G sets.
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That's all for this video.
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Thanks very much for your attention.
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  • Stabilitore: Il relatore usa il termine "stabilizer" in un contesto specifico, descrivendo come questo rappresenti un sottogruppo del gruppo G. Questo tipo di lessico è utile per imparare termini matematici in inglese.
  • Orbita: La definizione di orbita è essenziale per comprendere il concetto di insiemi G. Viene usata nella frase: "l’orbita di A è semplicemente l'insieme di tutti gli elementi nel tuo insieme S". Questa struttura offre una buona opportunità per esercitarsi con frasi che descrivono relazioni.
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