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Categorical limit

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Summary

A universal cone to a diagram, simultaneously generalizing products, equalizers, pullbacks, and inverse limits.

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Cartesian categoryCategorical limit

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Authored explanation

A cartesian category has finite products, which are limits of finite discrete diagrams, including a terminal object as the empty product.

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Pass canonically from a stronger object to structure it determines, or forget part of the data while retaining a valid weaker structure. The carrier may change under a canonical induced construction.

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Finitely complete categoryCategorical limit

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A finitely complete category has limits for every finite diagram; forgetting the ambient axiom leaves individual categorical limits.

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Pass canonically from a stronger object to structure it determines, or forget part of the data while retaining a valid weaker structure. The carrier may change under a canonical induced construction.

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FunctorCategorical limit

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A diagram is a functor into a category; when a universal cone exists, its apex is the limit of that diagram.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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