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equalizers

An equalizer of a pair of morphisms $f,g : A \to B$ is an object $E$ with a morphism $e : E \to A$ such that $f \circ e = g \circ e$ and which is universal with respect to this property. This property refers to the existence of equalizers.

• Dual property: coequalizers
• Related properties: finitely complete
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Relevant implications

• abelian is equivalent to additive andcoequalizers andepi-regular andequalizers andmono-regular
• binary products andequalizers implies pullbacks
• binary products andpullbacks implies equalizers
• coequalizers andself-dual implies equalizers
• complete is equivalent to equalizers andproducts
• connected limits is equivalent to equalizers andwide pullbacks
• countable products andequalizers implies sequential limits
• equalizers andgroupoid implies thin
• equalizers andright cancellative implies thin
• equalizers andself-dual implies coequalizers
• equalizers implies Cauchy complete
• finitely complete is equivalent to equalizers andfinite products
• thin implies equalizers andleft cancellative

Examples

There are 56 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 fields
• category of finite abelian groups
• category of finite orders
• 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 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 pairs of sets
• category of pointed sets
• category of posets
• category of prosets
• category of rings
• category of rngs
• category of schemes
• category of sets
• category of sheaves
• category of simplicial sets
• category of small categories
• category of topological spaces
• category of vector spaces
• category of Z-functors
• delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
• discrete category on two objects
• dual of the category of sets
• empty category
• poset [0,1]
• poset of extended natural numbers
• poset of natural numbers
• poset of ordinal numbers
• proset of integers w.r.t. divisibility
• trivial category
• walking commutative square
• walking composable pair
• walking fork
• walking isomorphism
• walking morphism
• walking span

Counterexamples

There are 9 categories without this property.

• category of finite sets and bijections
• category of finite sets and surjections
• category of non-empty sets
• category of sets and relations
• category of smooth manifolds
• delooping of a non-trivial finite group
• delooping of an infinite group
• delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
• walking parallel pair of morphisms

Unknown

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

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