Definition 1.2.1 (Category).label A category $\mathfrak{C}$ is a collection of objects $\ob{\frak{C}}$, such that for any $X,Y,Z\in\text{Ob}(\frak{C})$ there exists collections of morphisms $\mor{}{X }{Y },\mor{}{Y }{Z }$ and a composition law:
\begin{align*}\circ:\mor{}{X }{Y }\ti\mor{}{Y }{Z }\to \mor{}{X }{Z}\end{align*}
satisfying:
- (CAT1)
For any $X,Y,Z,W\in \ob{\frak{C}}$, $\mor{}{X }{Y }$ and $\mor{}{Z }{W }$ are disjoint or equal
- (CAT2)
For any $X,Y\in\ob{\frak{C}}$, there exists $\text{Id}_{X}\in \mor{}{X}{X},\text{Id}_{Y}\in \mor{}{Y }{Y }$ such that for each $f\in \mor{}{X }{Y }$, $f\circ \text{Id}_{X}=f=\text{Id}_{Y}\circ f$
- (CAT3)
For any $X,Y,Z,W\in \ob{\frak{C}}$, $f\in \mor{}{X }{Y },g\in \mor{}{Y }{Z }$ and $h\in \mor{}{Z }{W }$, $(h\circ g)\circ f=h\circ (g\circ f)$
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