Grothendieck group #
The Grothendieck group of a commutative monoid M is the "smallest" commutative group G
containing M, in the sense that monoid homs M โ H are in bijection with monoid homs G โ H for
any commutative group H.
Note that "Grothendieck group" also refers to the analogous construction in an abelian category obtained by formally making the last term of each short exact sequence invertible.
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The Grothendieck group of a monoid M is the localization at its top submonoid.
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The Grothendieck group of an additive monoid M is the localization at its top submonoid.
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The inclusion from a commutative monoid M to its Grothendieck group.
Note that this is only injective if M is cancellative.
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The inclusion from an additive commutative monoid M to its Grothendieck group.
Note that this is only injective if M is cancellative.
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The Grothendieck group is a group.
The Grothendieck group is a group.
A monoid homomorphism from a monoid M to a group G lifts to a group homomorphism from the
Grothendieck group of M to G.
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A monoid homomorphism from a monoid M to a group G lifts to a group homomorphism from the
Grothendieck group of M to G.