CatDat

category of posets

  • notation: Pos\Pos
  • objects: partially ordered sets (aka posets), i.e. sets equipped with a reflexive, transitive, antisymmetric relation
  • morphisms: order-preserving functions
  • Related categories: FinOrd\FinOrdProst\Prost
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Even though there are many similarities with Prost\Prost, the main difference is that the forgetful functor PosSet\Pos \to \Set has no right adjoint.

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 poset
  • initial object: empty poset
  • products: direct products with the evident partial order
  • coproducts: disjoint union with the obvious partial order that leaves the distinct summands incomparable

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: bijective functions that are order-preserving and order-reflecting
  • monomorphisms: injective order-preserving functions
  • epimorphisms: surjective order-preserving functions
  • regular monomorphisms: embeddings
  • regular epimorphisms: