preadditive category

noun

A category which is enriched over the category Ab of abelian groups; that is, each hom-set is equipped with an abelian group structure, and composition is distributive over the group operations of each hom-set.

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Meanings

nounpreadditive category (plural preadditive categories)

plural preadditive categories

  1. mathematicsA category which is enriched over the category Ab of abelian groups; that is, each hom-set is equipped with an abelian group structure, and composition is distributive over the group operations of each hom-set.
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