Monomorphism

Split monomorphism

A split monomorphism is a morphism with a postinverse or retraction , cat so that . Note that is necessarily a monomorphism, and has the dual property of being a split epimorphism. Furthermore need not be unique.

Properties

Let be a split monomorphism with retraction

  1. is the equalizer of and , hence it is regularly monic.

See dual properties at Properties


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