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From: "Prof. Peter Johnstone" <P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
Cc: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Name for not-quite-additive categories
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:29:54 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RjX2m-00079f-Qm@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RjIsQ-0003jJ-O7@mlist.mta.ca>

"Semi-additive" seems a good enough name to me.

Peter Johnstone

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Michael Barr wrote:

> Has anyone settled on a term to describe categories (such as commutative
> monoids) in which finite sums and products coincide but are not quite
> additive?  I guess they are commutative monoid enriched.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little
> security will deserve neither and lose both.
>
>            Benjamin Franklin


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-07 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-06 19:04 Michael Barr
2012-01-07  2:02 ` George Janelidze
2012-01-07  8:02 ` Robin Houston
2012-01-07  8:04 ` rlk
2012-01-07 11:29 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone [this message]

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