Definition:Abelian Category/Definition 1

Definition

An abelian category is a pre-abelian category in which:

every monomorphism is a kernel

every epimorphism is a cokernel

Also see

• Equivalence of Definitions of Abelian Category

• Results about abelian categories can be found here.

Sources

There are no source works cited for this page. Source citations are highly desirable, and mandatory for all definition pages. Definition pages whose content is wholly or partly unsourced are in danger of having such content deleted. To discuss this page in more detail, feel free to use the talk page.