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touched the formatting at additive category
I have added in the detailed proof of the proposition (here) that in an Ab-enriched category all finite (co-)products are biproducts.
For completeness, further below in the Properties-section (starting here) I have spelled out the way semiadditive structure induces enrichment in commutative monoids, and that this induced enrichment coincides with the original enrichement if we started with an additive category.
These statements are scattered over other entries already, of course, but for readability if may be good to have them here in one place.
I have expanded just a little more the (elementary) proof that in an Ab-enriched category finite products are biproducts (here). Maybe somewhat pedantically, but just to be completely clear.
Note that subtraction is not needed: the result holds for -enriched categories. In fact, having biproducts implies -enrichment.
Yes, that’s discussed at biproduct. But since I am editing the entry on additive categories, I am talking there about Ab-enrichment.
[actually it’s also discussed further below in the entry on additive categories]
I have also made more explicit the (elementary) proofs of this prop. and this prop.
In the proof of the proposition that finite products coincide with finite coproducts in a Ab-enriched category, the zero-ary case holds if the category has both an initial object and a terminal object. But, the existence of a terminal object (assuming the existence of an initial object) is not so clear to me.
Well, if is initial, then for any object the zero morphism is available and, by initiality, is left inverse to the unique map which is also the zero element in . So is monic; given any , the composites and must both be the zero element in since composition preserves zero morphisms (by enrichment). Then by monicity, so there is exactly one map .
However, the proof as currently given on the page shows less than the proposition claims. The proposition claims that “any terminal object is also an initial object”, but the proof given on the page (in contrast to the one Todd just gave) only shows (as naughie said) that if an additive category has both an initial and terminal object then they are isomorphic. Similarly, the proposition claims that any finite product is also a coproduct, but the proof given for binary products assumes the existence of a zero object.
Thanks. I guess I wasn’t looking hard enough in the other case – the proof for binary products uses only zero morphisms, not zero objects. So I think it’s all good now.
Thanks, but I found a simpler proof: if is an initial object, then because it is the only morphism . So, for any morphism , we have ; hence should be terminal.
Congratulations, naughie. I’ll be glad to edit that in later.
added pointer to:
Following discussion in another thread (here) I have added pointer to:
Maybe this should go with some commentary. But I admit that I didn’t actually take the time yet to read through this article.
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