The Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad (ESN) Theorem asserts an equivalence between the category of inverse semigroups and the category of inductive groupoids. In this paper, we consider the category of inverse categories and functors - a natural generalization of inverse semigroups and semigroup homomorphisms - and extend the ESN Theorem to an equivalence between this category and the category of locally complete inductive groupoids and locally inductive functors. From the proof of this extension, we also generalize the ESN Theorem to an equivalence between the category of inverse semicategories and the category of locally inductive groupoids and to an equivalence between the category of inverse categories with oplax functors and the category of locally complete inductive groupoids and ordered functors.
Keywords: Inverse semigroup, inverse category, inductive groupoid, locally complete inductive groupoid, inverse semicategory
2010 MSC: 18B35, 18B40
Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 33, 2018, No. 27, pp 813-831.
Published 2018-08-25.
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