CatDat

category of sets

The category of sets plays a fundamental role in category theory. Due to the Yoneda embedding, many results about general categories can be reduced to the category of sets. It is also usually the first example of a category that one encounters.

Satisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties

Unsatisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties*

*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

Unknown properties

Special objects

  • terminal object: singleton set
  • initial object: empty set
  • products: direct products with pointwise operations
  • coproducts: disjoint union

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: bijective maps
  • monomorphisms: injective maps
  • epimorphisms: surjective maps
  • regular monomorphisms: same as monomorphisms
  • regular epimorphisms: surjective morphisms

Functors

The database stores 24 functors based on the category of sets.

Morphisms

The database stores 3 morphisms based on the category of sets.

Symmetric monoidal categories

The database stores 2 symmetric monoidal categories based on the category of sets.