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Karoubi envelope

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The Karoubi envelope, also known as the Karoubi construction or Karoubi's sheaf, is a concept in the field of homotopy theory and algebraic topology, particularly associated with the study of motivic homotopy theory and stable homotopy categories.

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Karoubi envelope by Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
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The Karoubi envelope freely splits idempotents. Its objects are pairs (A,e) and a morphism (A,e)→(B,f) is a map u:A→B satisfying u=fue.
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