strongly connected
A category is strongly connected if it is inhabited and for every two objects there is a morphism . In other words, each hom-set is inhabited. Notice that when a terminal object exists, this property means that every object admits a morphism .
- Dual property: strongly connected (self-dual)
- Related properties: connected, inhabited, semi-strongly connected
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Relevant implications
- connected andgroupoid implies strongly connected
- finite coproducts andstrongly connected implies disjoint finite coproducts
- finite products andstrongly connected implies disjoint finite products
- inhabited andzero morphisms implies strongly connected
- initial object andstrongly connected andterminal object implies pointed
- strongly connected andthin implies trivial
- strongly connected implies semi-strongly connected
Examples
There are 26 categories with this property.
- category of abelian groups
- category of abelian sheaves
- category of Banach spaces with linear contractions
- category of commutative monoids
- category of finite abelian groups
- category of finite groups
- category of finitely generated abelian groups
- category of free abelian groups
- category of groups
- category of left modules over a division ring
- category of left modules over a ring
- category of monoids
- category of non-empty sets
- category of pointed sets
- category of pointed topological spaces
- category of rngs
- category of sets and relations
- category of vector spaces
- delooping of a non-trivial finite group
- delooping of an infinite countable group
- delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
- delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
- simplex category
- trivial category
- walking idempotent
- walking isomorphism
Counterexamples
There are 44 categories without this property.
- category of algebras
- category of combinatorial species
- category of commutative algebras
- category of commutative rings
- category of fields
- category of finite ordered sets
- category of finite sets
- category of finite sets and bijections
- category of finite sets and injections
- category of finite sets and surjections
- category of Hausdorff spaces
- category of locally ringed spaces
- category of M-sets
- category of measurable spaces
- category of metric spaces with continuous maps
- category of metric spaces with non-expansive maps
- category of metric spaces with ∞ allowed
- category of pairs of sets
- category of posets
- category of prosets
- category of pseudo-metric spaces with non-expansive maps
- category of rings
- category of schemes
- category of sets
- category of sheaves
- category of simplicial sets
- category of small categories
- category of smooth manifolds
- category of topological spaces
- category of Z-functors
- discrete category on two objects
- dual of the category of sets
- empty category
- poset [0,1]
- poset of extended natural numbers
- poset of natural numbers
- poset of ordinal numbers
- proset of integers w.r.t. divisibility
- walking commutative square
- walking composable pair
- walking fork
- walking morphism
- walking parallel pair
- walking span
Unknown
There are 0 categories for which the database has no information on whether they satisfy this property.
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