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Implication details

Claim: If a category is an elementary topos and has products, then it has coproducts.

Proof: This follows from the fact that for an elementary topos T\T, the power object functor P:Top→TP : \T^{\op} \to \T is monadic (Johnstone, 2.2.7), and therefore creates limits (i.e. it creates colimits in T\T from limits in T\T).

This implication has a dual.