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Category of relations (Rel)

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For a regular category C, the category Rel(C) has the objects of C and subobjects of A×B as relations A⇝B. Composition takes the image of the pullback expressing existential quantification over the middle object.
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The graph of f:A→B is the relation represented by (1A​,f):A↪A×B. Its converse is right adjoint to it in the pointwise order on relations.

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