Products and Coproducts in Categories

Czeslaw Bylinski

Warsaw University, Bialystok

Summary.

A product and coproduct in categories are introduced. The concepts included correspond to that presented in [6].

MML Identifier: CAT_3

Contents (PDF format)

1. Indexed families
2. Indexed families of morphisms
3. Retractions and coretractions
4. Morphisms determined by a terminal object
5. Morphisms determined by an initial object
6. Products
7. Coproducts

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