$n$-quivers and A Universal Investigation of $n$-representations of Quivers

TL;DR

This paper explores the structure of n-representations of quivers, constructs related coalgebras, and introduces n-quivers, unifying various representation categories within a new generalized framework.

Contribution

It constructs cofree coalgebras over n-representations, and introduces n-quivers that embed multiple quiver representation categories into a unified framework.

Findings

Construction of cofree coalgebras over n-representations

Development of limits and colimits in the category of n-representations

Introduction of n-quivers that unify multiple quiver representation categories

Abstract

We have two parallel goals of this paper. First, we investigate and construct cofree coalgebras over $n$-representations of quivers, limits and colimits of $n$-representations of quivers, and limits and colimits of coalgebras in the monoidal categories of $n$-representations of quivers. Second, we introduce a generalization for quivers and show that this generalization can be seen as essentially the same as $n$-representations of quivers. This is significantly important because it allows us to build a new quiver $\mathscr{Q}_{\!_{(\Qq_1, \Qq_2,..., \Qq_n)}}$, called $n$-quiver, from any given quivers $\Qq_1,\Qq_2,...,\Qq_n$, and enable us to identify each category $Rep_k(\Qq_j)$ of representations of a quiver $\Qq_j$ as a full subcategory of the category $Rep_k(\mathscr{Q}_{\!_{(\Qq_1, \Qq_2,..., \Qq_n)}})$ of representations of $\mathscr{Q}_{\!_{(\Qq_1, \Qq_2,..., \Qq_n)}}$ for every $j \in \{1,\,\,2,\,\,..., \,\,n\}$.