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From: Dana Scott <scott@cs.cmu.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: An elementary question
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:55:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dh2U9-0000c9-3y@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

The category of posets (= partially ordered sets) and monotone
maps is often used as an easy example -- different from the category
of sets -- that has products, coproducts, and is cartesian closed
but not a topos.

Let P and Q be two posets.  Define (P (<) Q) as the modified
coproduct where all the elements of P are made less than all the
elements of Q.  QUESTION. Does (P (<) Q) have a nice categorical
definition as a functor in the category of posets?



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             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-13 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-13 19:55 Dana Scott [this message]
2017-08-14  0:15 ` alex
2017-08-14  4:42 ` Patrik Eklund
2017-08-14 18:43   ` Mike Stay
2017-08-15  5:57   ` Vaughan Pratt
     [not found]   ` <fa2a57444ecc56bfc61165f2263d42e5@cs.umu.se>
2017-08-15 14:21     ` Mike Stay
2017-08-14  8:00 ` Paul Blain Levy
2017-08-14 18:51 ` Robin Cockett
     [not found] ` <CAKQgqTb4f=+Y=SuCu26AKg3Wd02friY_6z9FhukXiSnoapLZRQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-08-15  4:50   ` Patrik Eklund
2017-08-15 21:49 ` Joachim Kock
2017-08-17  2:02   ` Branko Nikolić

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