Category of commutative monoids

ID: category-of-commutative-monoids

This category has commutative monoids and their homomorphisms. Pointwise addition makes each hom-set a commutative monoid, and composition is additive in both variables. Finite cartesian products are also coproducts, using the coordinate injections with zero in the other coordinates and summing images. Therefore it is a semi-additive category, but it is not an additive category. The reflexive pair from the submonoid of to , using the two projections and section , has an arrow from to and none from to in its represented graph. Thus a reflexive pair here need not yield a groupoid.

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