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Chapter 3
Constructions of categories

In this chapter, we introduce various fundamental categorical constructions in the setting of synthetic category theory: subcategories and full subcategories, localizations, geometric realizations, exponentiable functors, joins, and slices.

Sections

Section 3.1

Subcategories

Subcategories generated by collections of morphisms.

Section 3.3

Localizations

Inverting morphisms and the localization universal property.

Section 3.6

Joins

The two universal properties of joins, their cores, and cones.

Section 3.8

Exercises

Exercises on subcategories, localizations, and dependent products.