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Biproducts are associative, commutative, and unital up to canonical isomorphism

Statement

Whenever the displayed biproducts exist, there are canonical isomorphisms

A(BC)(AB)C,ABBA,A0A0A,

where 0 denotes the empty biproduct.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Objects A,B,C in a category with the indicated finite biproducts.

[L1]

A biproduct is in particular a product and a coproduct (Biproduct).

[L2]

The empty biproduct is a zero object (The empty biproduct is a zero object).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

By [L1], both A(BC) and (AB)C are products of the ordered triple (A,B,C). Let α:A(BC)(AB)C be the unique morphism whose three composites with the target projections are the three source projections, and define β in the reverse direction the same way. Then βα and 1A(BC) have the same three composites with the source projections, while αβ and 1(AB)C have the same three composites with the target projections. By the product universal property in [L3], α and β are inverse isomorphisms. This is the canonical associativity isomorphism.

L1L3
1.2

Likewise, AB and BA are products of the same ordered pair after swapping the labels. The unique maps exchanging the two projections are inverse by the same product-uniqueness argument, giving the canonical symmetry isomorphism ABBA.

L1L3
1.3

By [L2], the object 0 is both initial and terminal. Let pA:A0A and p0:A00 be the product projections from [L1], and let λ:AA0 be the unique map with pAλ=1A and p0λ equal to the unique map A0. Then pA and λ are inverse, because pAλ=1A and λpA has the same composites with pA and p0 as 1A0. So A0A. The same argument with the product projections of 0A gives 0AA.

L1L2L3
2.1

The three displayed isomorphisms are therefore forced by the universal properties alone, which is exactly the asserted associativity, commutativity, and unitality up to canonical isomorphism.

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