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Misc

Definitions

Epimorphism (surjective)

A morphism that maps every object of its domain to every object of its co-domain.

Monomorphism (injective)

A morphism mapping a domain to a strict-subset of the objects in the co-domain, i.e. there are objects in the co-domain which cannot be mapped to.

When moving between categories via monomorphisms, we can simplify to make some compositions equal even if the morphisms are not actually equal, e.g. f x = mod x 20, g1 x = x*2, and g2 x = if x < 20 then x*2 else x*3, we can consider g1 and g2 to be equal if they are composed after f: g1 . f = g2 . f => g1 = g2.

In other circumstances f . g1 = f . g2 => g1 = g2 might be a valid simplification.

Isomorphism

A morphism with an inverse morphism: we can jump back and forth between the domain and co-domain. NB. It may still be a monomorphism so the categories may not be “identical”.

Types of Category

TODO: monad, functor, applicative, space
https://wiki.haskell.org/Category_theory

add
add-identity
subtract
add is commutative; order doesn't matter
distributive multiplication & mult-identity, x*(add-identity) annihilates
divide
Semigroup
Monoid
Commutative Monoid
Group
Abelian Group
Semiring/rig
Ring
Field

Sets

TODO: partial order (poset), preorder (proset), lattice

Functor

Goes between categories. In Haskell terms, the Functor typeclass serves to “lift” a normal function into a Functor instance, thereby mapping a morphism in one (Hask sub-)category over to a morphism in another.