Documentation

Mathlib.CategoryTheory.Subterminal

Subterminal objects #

Subterminal objects are the objects which can be thought of as subobjects of the terminal object. In fact, the definition can be constructed to not require a terminal object, by defining A to be subterminal iff for any Z, there is at most one morphism Z ⟶ A. An alternate definition is that the diagonal morphism A ⟶ A ⨯ A is an isomorphism. In this file we define subterminal objects and show the equivalence of these three definitions.

We also construct the subcategory of subterminal objects.

TODO #

An object A is subterminal iff for any Z, there is at most one morphism Z ⟶ A.

Equations
Instances For

    If A is subterminal, the unique morphism from it to a terminal object is a monomorphism. The converse of isSubterminal_of_mono_isTerminal_from.

    If A is subterminal, the unique morphism from it to the terminal object is a monomorphism. The converse of isSubterminal_of_mono_terminal_from.

    If the unique morphism from A to a terminal object is a monomorphism, A is subterminal. The converse of IsSubterminal.mono_isTerminal_from.

    If the diagonal morphism of A is an isomorphism, then it is subterminal. The converse of isSubterminal.isIso_diag.

    The (full sub)category of subterminal objects. TODO: If C is the category of sheaves on a topological space X, this category is equivalent to the lattice of open subsets of X. More generally, if C is a topos, this is the lattice of "external truth values".

    Equations
    Instances For
      @[simp]
      theorem CategoryTheory.subterminalInclusion_map (C : Type u₁) [CategoryTheory.Category.{v₁, u₁} C] :
      ∀ {X Y : CategoryTheory.InducedCategory C CategoryTheory.FullSubcategory.obj} (f : X Y), (CategoryTheory.subterminalInclusion C).toPrefunctor.map f = f

      The category of subterminal objects is equivalent to the category of monomorphisms to the terminal object (which is in turn equivalent to the subobjects of the terminal object).

      Equations
      • One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
      Instances For