Monoid and Topological groupoid Mohammad Qasim Mann'a Department of Mathematics College of Science, Al-Qassim University P.O. Box: 6644-Buraidah: 51452, Saudi Arabia e-mail:
[email protected] Abstract., Here we introduce some new results which is relative to the concept of topological monoid-groupoid and prove that the category of topological monoid coverings of X is equivalent to the category covering groupoids of the monoid- groupoid 1 X . Also, show that the monoid structure of monoid-groupoid lifts to a universal covering groupoid. Keywords. Fundamental groupoid, covering groupoids, topological groupoid, topological semigroup and monoid. Mathematical Subject Classification 2010: 22A05, 20L05, 22A22, 22A15, 06F05. 0.Introduction The groupoid is one of important subjects of category theory. In this work we introduced the concepts of topological monoid-groupoids and discuss some properties which relative to this concept. Also we find the fundamental groupoid of topological monoid whose underlying space has a universal covering is a topological monoid-groupoid. Moreover, we show that the category of topological monoid covering of X is equivalent to the category of covering groupoids of monoid-groupoids. Further, let G be monoid-groupoid ~ ~ and G be a groupoid and p : G G be a universal covering on the underlying ~ ~ groupoids such that G and G are transitive groupoids such that OP (e) e , then the monoid structure of G lifts. 1.Preliminaries A groupoid [1, 2, 7]G is small category consists of two sets G andOG , called respectively the set of elements (or arrows) and the set of objects (or vertices) , of the groupoid, together with, two maps : G OG , called respectively the source and target maps, the map :OG G, written as (x)= 1 x , where O 1x is called the identity element at x in G , and is called the object map and G G G the partial multiplication map; : , (g, h) g h, where G G (g, h)G G :(g) (h) .