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Monday, April 28, 2014

Categories

For the definition, see Wikipedia.

Here, at this time, we just want to give a small diagram that shows some of the relations between the categories of categories, monoids, (directed) graphs, and sets.
MonCatSetGraph Here the vertical arrows take, respectively, a monoid to its underlying set and a category to its underlying graph (i.e., they forget the composition and the specification of the identities).
The top inclusion takes a monoid into a category with just one object and that monoid as its set of arrows.
The bottom inclusion takes a set into the graph with only one vertex and that set as its set of edges.

Both vertical (downward) arrows have left adjoints going up, taking respectively a set to the free monoid on that set and a graph to the free category on that graph.
Following is work in progress!
Here are two diagrams, one for ordinals and the other for internal categories:
{1}{0,1}{1,2}{0,1,2}{0}{0,2}{2} C0C1C1C2C0C1C0

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