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Pointed sets are not additive

Statement refuted

Refuted claim: the category of pointed sets is additive.

Take $A = B = {0, 1}$ with basepoint $0$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The pointed sets $A = B = {0, 1}$ with basepoint $0$ .

[A1]

In ${S e t}_{*}$ , the wedge $A \lor B$ has three points and the product $A \times B$ has four points.

Counterexample

technique · direct

1.1A1

The canonical map $A \lor B \to A \times B$ sends the three wedge points to $(0, 0)$ , $(1, 0)$ , and $(0, 1)$ , so it misses $(1, 1)$ . Therefore the wedge and product are not a biproduct pair.

2.1step 1.1∎

An additive category must in particular have binary biproducts, so ${S e t}_{*}$ cannot be additive.

Depends on

FALSE: finite products and finite coproducts already force biproducts

Used by

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Sources

Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context, Chapter 3 (standard reference, not scraped)