Biproduct-induced addition of morphisms
ID: biproduct-induced-addition-of-morphisms
In a pointed category with finite product in a category and coproducts in a category and invertible canonical maps , the unique commutative-monoid enrichment is . Associativity and commutativity follow by comparing fold maps on triple and swapped coproduct injections. Composition distributes by the universal properties. For uniqueness, bilinearity forces on each biproduct, and composing with the fold and the paired morphism forces the addition formula.
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