Principal-value beta integral Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-18
For ,
Gaussian contour translation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For and real , integrate around a wide rectangle between the real axis and . The vertical contributions vanish as the width tends to infinity, so
Lipschitz bound inside a bounded analytic half-plane Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If is analytic and bounded by on , then Cauchy's derivative estimate gives
on . Integrating along line segments gives a Lipschitz bound with the same constant in that smaller half-plane.
Discrete fibration Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A functor is a discrete fibration when every arrow has a unique lift with codomain .
Final functor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A functor is final when every comma category is nonempty and connected. Colimits are unchanged after restriction along a final functor.
Category of metric spaces and non-expansive maps Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The category has metric spaces as objects and maps satisfying as morphisms. Its binary product uses the maximum metric.
Comma category Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For and , the objects of are arrows ; its morphisms are commuting triangles induced by arrows in .
Regular category Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Idempotent morphism Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
An endomorphism is idempotent when . It splits when for maps , satisfying .
Colimit Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A colimit is a universal cocone under a diagram: every other cocone factors through it uniquely.
Categorical limit Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A limit of a diagram is a terminal cone over : every other cone factors through it uniquely.
Terminal object Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
A terminal object of a category receives exactly one morphism from every object . Any two terminal objects are uniquely isomorphic by composing their unique connecting maps.
A singleton is terminal in the Category of sets, and the trivial group is terminal among groups. The empty set is not terminal, because no function from a nonempty set to it exists. An object that is both initial and terminal is a zero object; this occurs for the trivial group but not in the category of all sets.
Subobject Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
A subobject of an object in a category is an equivalence class of monomorphisms . Two such maps are equivalent if an isomorphism between their domains makes the maps into agree. This removes dependence on the name of the chosen domain.
In the Category of sets, subobjects correspond to subsets; in the category of groups, they correspond to subgroups. The map into remains essential: two abstractly isomorphic subgroups can define different subobjects if they occupy different positions in . Dually, quotient objects are equivalence classes of epimorphisms out of an object.
Epimorphism Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An epimorphism is right-cancellative: implies . In the Category of sets and in abelian groups, epimorphisms are precisely the surjective homomorphisms.
Category of sets Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
Small category Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A category is small when its objects and morphisms form sets.
Functor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A functor assigns an object of a category to each object and a categorical morphism to each arrow . It preserves the rules for composing arrows:
For example, the forgetful functor from the category of groups to the Category of sets keeps the underlying sets and maps of elements while forgetting the group operations. A group homomorphism remains a function, and composing the underlying functions gives the underlying map of the composite group homomorphism.
Another example sends a set to its power set . It sends a function to the function defined by , the image of the subset . For and , the subset goes to and then ; applying the composite directly also gives . The equality of these routes expresses preservation of composition in a category.
Cartier class group Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The Cartier class group is the group of Cartier divisors modulo principal Cartier divisors. On an integral scheme it is naturally .
Line bundle associated to a divisor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For a Cartier divisor , the associated line bundle has local sections given by meromorphic functions satisfying . Its canonical meromorphic section has divisor .
Positive quadrant Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The positive quadrant of the Cartesian plane is the set of points with and .

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