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Stream: learning: questions

Topic: spans that are pullback cones


view this post on Zulip James Deikun (Jan 28 2023 at 13:43):

Are there any interesting properties of these qua span?

view this post on Zulip Morgan Rogers (he/him) (Jan 28 2023 at 14:30):

The legs are jointly monic; is that the kind of thing you mean?

view this post on Zulip James Deikun (Jan 28 2023 at 14:52):

Sort of; but I'm really more interested in properties that obviously cash out as something about the loose arrows in the double category of spans.

view this post on Zulip Mike Shulman (Jan 28 2023 at 21:13):

Well, joint monicity of the legs translates to being a subterminal object of the hom-category of loose arrows... (-:O