Research

Generally speaking, I am interested in understanding various topics in algebra from the categorical point of view, as well as various topics in category theory from the algebraic point of view.

Publications

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Submitted for publication
In preparation
  • M. Hoefnagel, On the commutativity of products with coequalisers in general varieties.
  • M. Hoefnagel and P.-A. Jacqmin, A note on the atomicity of arithmeticity.
  • M. Hoefnagel and P.-A. Jacqmin, Partial algebras and implications of (weak) matrix properties.
  • M. Hoefnagel and D. Rodelo, On Jonsson categories.
Talks / Posters

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  • Matrix taxonomy of finitely complete categories, Annual congress of the South African Mathematics Society, 2022.
  • On the commutativity of binary products and coequalisers, Annual congress of the South African Mathematics Society, 2022.
  • Matrix taxonomy, Category Theory Seminar at UCLouvain, 2022.
  • Deciding implications of matrix properties, Centre for mathematics, University of Coimbra, 2021.
  • A classification of left exact (finitely complete) categories (motivated from universal algebra), Panglobal Algebra and Logic Seminar, 2020.
  • Coextensivity and the strict refinement property, Annual congress of the South African Mathematics Society, 2019.
  • From the commutativity of products and coequalizers to Gumm's shifting lemma, Categorical structures in Algebra, Topology and Logic, Stellenbosch University, 2019.
  • M-coextensivity and the strict refinement property, Talk given at CT2019 the international conference in category theory, Edinburgh, 2019.
  • A Krull-Schmidt type theorem for direct decompositions in majority categories, Annual congress of the South African Mathematics Society, Potchefstroom 2017.
  • Majority categories, 5th Workshop in Categorical Methods in non-Abelian algebra, Lovain la Neuve, Belgium 2017.