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TauCeti.CategoryTheory.Extensive

Base change of finite coproducts in finitary pre-extensive categories #

In a finitary pre-extensive category finite coproducts are universal: they are stable under pullback. Phrased in over categories, base change Over.pullback f : Over S ⥤ Over T along any morphism f : T ⟶ S preserves finite coproducts. This applies for instance to schemes, where it says that the fibre product of a finite disjoint union with T over S is the disjoint union of the fibre products.

Main results #

In a finitary pre-extensive category, base change of objects over S along any f : T ⟶ S preserves finite coproducts.

In a finitary pre-extensive category, base change of objects over S preserves finite coproducts.

In a finitary pre-extensive category, the base change of the fold map ∐_j Y ⟶ Y along any morphism f : S ⟶ Y is the fold map ∐_j S ⟶ S, with first projection ∐_j f.