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Thin Category

Thin Category

13 May 20261 min read

A category C is thin iff each hom-set has at most one morphism.

Remarks

There is an isomorphism between the category of thin categories and the category of posets, so they can be though of as the same category.


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  • (Co)filtered Category
  • Directed Poset
  • Locally-Small Category
  • Order Theory
  • Ordinal Category
  • Partial Order
  • Poset (Category)
  • Preorder
  • Supremum and Infimum
  • Total Ordering

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