Reflectors and the Globalization Problem for Partial Actions of Semiconstellations

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We introduce semiconstellations and restriction semiconstellations, together with their actions on sets, providing a common setting for partial actions of categories, inverse semigroupoids, restriction semigroups, and semigroupoids. We then investigate the \emph{globalization problem}, which asks whether every partial action can, up to isomorphism, be obtained by restricting a global action. A distinctive feature of our approach is the use of reflectors not only to construct globalizations, but also to study when partial actions are globalizable. We show that every partial action of a restriction semiconstellation admits a reflector in the full subcategory of S-algebras consisting of what we call \emph{almost global actions}, and investigate conditions under which this reflector provides a globalization. As an application, we obtain a positive answer to the globalization problem for partial actions of restriction semigroupoids on sets, and consequently for restriction semigroups and restriction categories. In contrast, the answer is negative for restriction semiconstellations in general. Finally, given a semiconstellation S and a suitable equivalence relation R on S, we introduce the notion of an \emph{R-compatible action of} S and construct a restriction semiconstellation S^R. We then show that partial and R-compatible actions of S correspond, respectively, to partial and global actions of S^R. In this way, the globalization problem for semiconstellations can be reduced to the corresponding problem for restriction semiconstellations.

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@misc{haag2026reflectors,
  title = {{Reflectors and the Globalization Problem for Partial Actions of Semiconstellations}},
  author = {Rafael Haag and Thaísa Tamusiunas},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.25346},
  eprint = {2609.25346},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25346},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Reflectors and the Globalization Problem for Partial Actions of Semiconstellations
AU  - Rafael Haag
AU  - Thaísa Tamusiunas
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/21
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.25346
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25346
AB  - We introduce semiconstellations and restriction semiconstellations, together with their actions on sets, providing a common setting for partial actions of categories, inverse semigroupoids, restriction semigroups, and semigroupoids. We then investigate the \emph{globalization problem}, which asks whether every partial action can, up to isomorphism, be obtained by restricting a global action. A distinctive feature of our approach is the use of reflectors not only to construct globalizations, but also to study when partial actions are globalizable. We show that every partial action of a restriction semiconstellation admits a reflector in the full subcategory of S-algebras consisting of what we call \emph{almost global actions}, and investigate conditions under which this reflector provides a globalization. As an application, we obtain a positive answer to the globalization problem for partial actions of restriction semigroupoids on sets, and consequently for restriction semigroups and restriction categories. In contrast, the answer is negative for restriction semiconstellations in general. Finally, given a semiconstellation S and a suitable equivalence relation R on S, we introduce the notion of an \emph{R-compatible action of} S and construct a restriction semiconstellation S^R. We then show that partial and R-compatible actions of S correspond, respectively, to partial and global actions of S^R. In this way, the globalization problem for semiconstellations can be reduced to the corresponding problem for restriction semiconstellations.
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