From: Toby Bartels <toby+categories@ugcs.caltech.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Question on terminology
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:12:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NdkGH-0001lu-6R@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NdY6y-0005St-Hw@mailserv.mta.ca>
lamarche wrote:
>Is there a standard accepted name for categories all whose morphisms are
>both epi and mono?
...
>Another
>possiblility would be "cancellation categories" (they have both the left
>and right cancellation property), but I'm not sure I like this one.
I believe that the usual term in monoid theory
would be "cancellative monoid" (not "cancellation monoid").
Google gets relevant hits for "cancellative category",
although that might not appeal to you any better.
--Toby
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-06 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 17:39 lamarche
2010-02-06 0:12 ` Toby Bartels [this message]
2010-02-06 0:21 ` Steve Lack
2012-08-24 19:03 question " claudio pisani
2012-08-25 3:35 Fred E.J. Linton
[not found] <977qHyDIk8016S03.1345865710@web03.cms.usa.net>
2012-08-25 13:58 ` claudio pisani
2012-08-27 22:03 ` David Roberts
2012-08-26 4:59 Fred E.J. Linton
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