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Fiber product

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The fiber product, also called the pullback, is an idea in category theory which occurs in many areas of mathematics.

Definition

Let , , and be objects of the same category; let and be homomorphisms of this category. Then the fiber product of and with respect to , denoted (when the specific functions and are clear) is the set of elements in the product in which .

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