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distributive

A category is distributive if it has finite products, finite coproducts, and for every object $A$ the functor $- \times A$ preserves finite coproducts.

• Related properties: infinitary distributive
• nLab Link

Relevant implications

• infinitary distributive implies   distributive

  trivial
• distributive implies   finite products and  finite coproducts

  by definition
• distributive implies   strict initial object

  See the nLab.
• cartesian closed and  finite coproducts implies   distributive

  Each functor $A \times -$ is left adjoint and hence preserves finite coproducts (in fact, all colimits).
• distributive and  exact filtered colimits and  coproducts implies   infinitary distributive

  Each functor $A \times -$ preserves finite coproducts and filtered colimits, hence all coproducts.

Examples

• category of combinatorial species
• category of finite sets
• category of locally ringed spaces
• category of M-sets
• category of measurable spaces
• category of metric spaces with ∞ allowed
• category of metric spaces with continuous maps
• category of posets
• category of schemes
• category of sets
• category of simplicial sets
• category of small categories
• category of smooth manifolds
• category of topological spaces
• category of Z-functors
• partial order [0,1]
• partial order of extended natural numbers
• preorder of integers w.r.t. divisiblity
• trivial category
• walking isomorphism
• walking morphism

Counterexamples

• category of abelian groups
• category of Banach spaces with linear contractions
• category of commutative rings
• category of fields
• category of finite abelian groups
• category of finite orders
• category of finite sets and bijections
• category of finite sets and injections
• category of finite sets and surjections
• category of finitely generated abelian groups
• category of free abelian groups
• category of groups
• category of left R-modules
• category of metric spaces with non-expansive maps
• category of monoids
• category of non-empty sets
• category of pointed sets
• category of rings
• category of rngs
• category of sets and relations
• category of vector spaces
• delooping of a non-trivial finite group
• delooping of an infinite group
• delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
• delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
• discrete category on two objects
• empty category
• partial order of natural numbers
• partial order of ordinal numbers
• walking parallel pair of morphisms

Unknown

For these categories the database has no info if they satisfy this property or not.

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