Direct Product - Internal and External Direct Product

Internal and External Direct Product

See also: Internal direct sum

Some authors draw a distinction between an internal direct product and an external direct product. If and, then we say that X is an internal direct product (of A and B); if A and B are not subobjects, then we say that this is an external direct product.

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