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connected

A category is connected if it is inhabited and every two objects can be joined via a zig-zag path of morphisms. Equivalently, $\C$ is connected if $\C \simeq \coprod_{i \in I} \C_i$ implies $\C_i \simeq 0$ for some $i$.

• Dual property: connected (self-dual)
• Related properties: inhabited, semi-strongly connected, strongly connected
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Relevant implications

• connected andessentially discrete implies trivial
• connected andgroupoid implies strongly connected
• connected andmulti-initial object is equivalent to initial object
• connected andmulti-terminal object is equivalent to terminal object
• connected implies inhabited
• cosifted implies connected
• semi-strongly connected implies connected
• sifted implies connected

Examples

There are 75 categories with this property.

• category of abelian groups
• category of abelian sheaves
• category of algebras
• category of Banach spaces with linear contractions
• category of combinatorial species
• category of commutative algebras
• category of commutative monoids
• category of commutative rings
• category of compact Hausdorff spaces
• category of countable groups
• category of countable sets
• category of finite abelian groups
• category of finite groups
• category of finite ordered sets
• category of finite sets
• category of finite sets and injections
• category of finitely generated abelian groups
• category of free abelian groups
• category of groups
• category of Hausdorff spaces
• category of Jónsson-Tarski algebras
• category of left modules over a division ring
• category of left modules over a ring
• category of locally ringed spaces
• category of M-sets
• category of measurable spaces
• category of metric spaces with continuous maps
• category of metric spaces with non-expansive maps
• category of metric spaces with ∞ allowed
• category of monoids
• category of non-empty sets
• category of pairs of sets
• category of pointed sets
• category of pointed topological spaces
• category of posets
• category of prosets
• category of pseudo-metric spaces with non-expansive maps
• category of rings
• category of rngs
• category of schemes
• category of semigroups
• category of sets
• category of sets and relations
• category of sets with finite-to-one maps
• category of sheaves
• category of simplicial sets
• category of small categories
• category of smooth manifolds
• category of topological spaces
• category of torsion abelian groups
• category of torsion-free abelian groups
• category of vector spaces
• category of Z-functors
• delooping of a non-trivial finite group
• delooping of an infinite countable group
• delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
• delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
• dual of the category of sets
• poset [0,1]
• poset of extended natural numbers
• poset of natural numbers
• poset of ordinal numbers
• proset of integers w.r.t. divisibility
• simplex category
• trivial category
• walking commutative square
• walking composable pair
• walking coreflexive pair
• walking fork
• walking idempotent
• walking isomorphism
• walking morphism
• walking parallel pair
• walking span
• walking splitting

Counterexamples

There are 5 categories without this property.

• category of fields
• category of finite sets and bijections
• category of finite sets and surjections
• discrete category on two objects
• empty category

Unknown

There are 0 categories for which the database has no information on whether they satisfy this property.

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