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| | Kernel (category theory) - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Intuitively, the kernel of the morphism f : A → B is the "most general" morphism k : K → A which, when composed with f, yields zero. |
 | | To be explicit, if f: A → B is a homomorphism in one of these categories, and K is its kernel in the usual algebraic sense, then K is a subalgebra of A and the inclusion homomorphism from K to A is a kernel in the categorical sense. |
 | | When m is a monomorphism, it must be its own image; thus, not only are abelian categories normal, so that every monomorphism is a kernel, but we also know which morphism the monomorphism is a kernel of, to wit, its cokernel. |
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