List of category theory topics

Specific categories

• Category of sets
  • Concrete category
• K-Vect
• Category of topological spaces
• Category of abelian groups

Objects

• Initial object
• Terminal object
• Zero object
• Group object

Morphisms

• Zero morphism
• Normal morphism
• Dual (category theory)
• Groupoid
• Image (category theory)
• Commutative diagram

Functors

• Natural transformation
• Yoneda lemma
• Functor category
• Adjoint functors
  • Galois connection
  • Pontryagin duality
  • Affine scheme
• Monad (category theory)
• Comonad
• Combinatorial species
• Exact functor
• Derived functor

Limits

• Limit (category theory)
  • Inverse limit
    • Product (category theory)
    • Equalizer
    • Kernel (category theory)
    • Pro-finite group
  • Direct limit
    • Coproduct
• Biproduct
  • Direct sum

Additive structure

• Preadditive category
• Additive category
• Pre-Abelian category
• Abelian category
  • Exact sequence
  • Exact functor
  • Snake lemma
    • Nine lemma
  • Five lemma
    • Short five lemma
  • Mitchell's embedding theorem
• Injective cogenerator

Monoidal category

• Identity object

Cartesian closed category

Structure (category theory)

Toposes

• Sheaf
• Descent (category theory)
• Grothendieck topology
• Introduction to topos theory
• Subobject classifier
• Pointless topology
• Heyting algebra

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