In category theory and its applications to other branches of mathematics, kernels are a generalization of the kernels of group homomorphisms, the kernels...
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functor Hom functor Product (category theory) Equaliser (mathematics) Kernel (category theory) Pullback (category theory)/fiber product Inverse limit...
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Kernel (algebra), a general concept that includes: Kernel (linear algebra) or null space, a set of vectors mapped to the zero vector Kernel (category...
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for rings. Kernels allow defining quotient objects (also called quotient algebras in universal algebra, and cokernels in category theory). For many types...
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In set theory, the kernel of a function f {\displaystyle f} (or equivalence kernel) may be taken to be either the equivalence relation on the function's...
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Normal morphism (redirect from Normal (category theory))
epimorphism in the category of groups is conormal (since it is the cokernel of its own kernel), so this category is conormal. In an abelian category, every monomorphism...
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Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations. It was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the...
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Equaliser (mathematics) (redirect from Equalizer (category theory))
kernel" is common throughout category theory for any binary equaliser. In the case of a preadditive category (a category enriched over the category of...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of some morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse of some morphism. In...
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In probability theory, a Markov kernel (also known as a stochastic kernel or probability kernel) is a map that in the general theory of Markov processes...
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Cokernel (redirect from Cokernel (category theory))
called the corank of f. Cokernels are dual to the kernels of category theory, hence the name: the kernel is a subobject of the domain (it maps to the domain)...
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object. A simple example is the category of sets, whose objects are sets and whose arrows are functions. Category theory is a branch of mathematics that...
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In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a pre-abelian category is an additive category that has all kernels and cokernels. Spelled out in more...
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In mathematics, an abelian category is a category in which morphisms and objects can be added and in which kernels and cokernels exist and have desirable...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the abstract notion of a limit captures the essential properties of universal constructions such as products...
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specifically in category theory, a preadditive category is another name for an Ab-category, i.e., a category that is enriched over the category of abelian...
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Morphism (redirect from Morphism (category theory))
In mathematics, a morphism is a concept of category theory that generalizes structure-preserving maps such as homomorphism between algebraic structures...
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Coproduct (redirect from Coproduct (category theory))
In category theory, the coproduct, or categorical sum, is a construction which includes as examples the disjoint union of sets and of topological spaces...
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In category theory, a regular category is a category with finite limits and coequalizers of a pair of morphisms called kernel pairs, satisfying certain...
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In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher order, which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows...
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Applied category theory is an academic discipline in which methods from category theory are used to study other fields including but not limited to computer...
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In Ab, the notion of kernel in the category theory sense coincides with kernel in the algebraic sense, i.e. the categorical kernel of the morphism f :...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pullback (also called a fiber product, fibre product, fibered product or Cartesian square) is the limit...
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morphisms. As such, it is a concrete category. The study of this category is known as group theory. There are two forgetful functors from Grp, M: Grp → Mon from...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, duality is a correspondence between the properties of a category C and the dual properties of the opposite...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pushout (also called a fibered coproduct or fibered sum or cocartesian square or amalgamated sum) is the...
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Adjoint functors (redirect from Unit (category theory))
In mathematics, specifically category theory, adjunction is a relationship that two functors may exhibit, intuitively corresponding to a weak form of...
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in category theory, a quasi-abelian category is a pre-abelian category in which the pushout of a kernel along arbitrary morphisms is again a kernel and...
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In category theory, a branch of abstract mathematics, an equivalence of categories is a relation between two categories that establishes that these categories...
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Functor (redirect from Functor (category theory))
In mathematics, specifically category theory, a functor is a mapping between categories. Functors were first considered in algebraic topology, where algebraic...
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