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Product Category


The product category C×D of categories C and D has object pairs (C,D) and morphism pairs (f,g). Identities and composition are defined componentwise. Its projections to C and D make it the categorical product of the two categories in the category of small categories. A bifunctor on C and D is a functor whose domain is their product category.


See also

Bifunctor, Category, Product

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References

Mac Lane, S. Categories for the Working Mathematician. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9839-7.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Product Category." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProductCategory.html

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