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In mathematics, a quotient category is a category obtained from another one by identifying sets of morphisms. The notion is similar to that of a quotient group or quotient space, but in the categorical setting. ==Definition== Let ''C'' be a category. A ''congruence relation'' ''R'' on ''C'' is given by: for each pair of objects ''X'', ''Y'' in ''C'', an equivalence relation ''R''''X'',''Y'' on Hom(''X'',''Y''), such that the equivalence relations respect composition of morphisms. That is, if : are related in Hom(''X'', ''Y'') and : are related in Hom(''Y'', ''Z'') then ''g''1''f''1, ''g''1''f''2, ''g''2''f''1 and ''g''2''f''2 are related in Hom(''X'', ''Z''). Given a congruence relation ''R'' on ''C'' we can define the quotient category ''C''/''R'' as the category whose objects are those of ''C'' and whose morphisms are equivalence classes of morphisms in ''C''. That is, : Composition of morphisms in ''C''/''R'' is well-defined since ''R'' is a congruence relation. There is also a notion of taking the quotient of an Abelian category ''A'' by a Serre subcategory ''B''. This is done as follows. The objects of ''A/B'' are the objects of ''A''. Given two objects ''X'' and ''Y'' of ''A'', we define the set of morphisms from ''X'' to ''Y'' in ''A/B'' to be where the limit is over subobjects and such that . Then ''A/B'' is an Abelian category, and there is a canonical functor . This Abelian quotient satisfies the universal property that if ''C'' is any other Abelian category, and is an exact functor such that ''F(b)'' is a zero object of ''C'' for each , then there is a unique exact functor such that . (See ().) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quotient category」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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