Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 20 2 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Keep the notation of the preceding part. For and satisfying , we have . The outside pullback in a category gives a unique with and . Moreover . The morphisms thus have the same composites with and . Uniqueness in the right pullback in a category gives . Any factorization through the left square also factors through the outside rectangle, so it is unique there. The left square is a pullback. Together these two arguments prove the pullback pasting lemma.