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Projection Morphism


A projection morphism is one of the canonical morphisms from a product or fiber product to one of its factors. For a fiber product X×_(S)Y, the projections

p_X:X×_(S)Y->X
(1)
p_Y:X×_(S)Y->Y
(2)
(3)

satisfy f degreesp_X=g degreesp_Y and occur in its universal property.


See also

Fiber Product, Morphism, Pullback, Universal Property

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References

Mac Lane, S. Categories for the Working Mathematician, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Projection Morphism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProjectionMorphism.html

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