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From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Addendum
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:37:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200001170637.WAA03764@coraki.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:07:11 EST." <200001151807.NAA10666@saul.cis.upenn.edu>


>               * | A  B
>               --+------
>               A | B  A
>               B | A  A
>
>The unique cubical coalgebra is  A  but there is no square coalgebra.
>
>What I don't have is a counterexample with an _associative_ bifunctor.

How about the positive integers with * as sum, with 1->3 as the only
nonidentity arrow?  The unique cubical coalgebra is  1  but there is no
square coalgebra.

Vaughan



  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-17  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-15 18:07 Addendum Peter Freyd
2000-01-17  6:37 ` Vaughan Pratt [this message]
2000-01-17 21:18   ` Addendum Vaughan Pratt
2000-01-18 19:47     ` Addendum Vaughan Pratt
2000-01-18  9:49   ` Addendum Dr. P.T. Johnstone
2004-03-26 13:39 Addendum Peter Freyd

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