CatDat

category of Z-functors

  • notation: [CRing,Set][\mathbf{CRing}, \mathbf{Set}]
  • objects: Z-functors, i.e. functors from commutative rings to sets
  • morphisms: natural transformations
  • Related categories: Sch\mathbf{Sch}Set\mathbf{Set}

This category is used in functorial algebraic geometry. It also provides a typical example of a functor category that is not locally small, but nevertheless relevant. Most of its properties are directly derived from the category of sets, so other functor categories [C,Set][\mathbf{C}, \mathbf{Set}] for large categories C\mathbf{C} will be similar.

Satisfied Properties

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Deduced properties

Unsatisfied Properties

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Deduced properties*

*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

Unknown properties

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Special objects

  • terminal object: constant functor with value 11
  • initial object: constant functor with value \emptyset
  • products: pointwise defined direct product
  • coproducts: pointwise disjoint union

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: natural isomorphisms
  • monomorphisms: pointwise injective natural transformations
  • epimorphisms: objectwise surjective natural transformations
  • regular monomorphisms: same as monomorphisms
  • regular epimorphisms: same as epimorphisms