Quotient Category - Examples

Examples

  • Monoids and group may be regarded as categories with one object. In this case the quotient category coincides with the notion of a quotient monoid or a quotient group.
  • The homotopy category of topological spaces hTop is a quotient category of Top, the category of topological spaces. The equivalence classes of morphisms are homotopy classes of continuous maps.

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