Finite categories?

asked 2021-07-16 13:07:46 +0200

David Holmes gravatar image

updated 2024-04-12 20:12:40 +0200

FrédéricC gravatar image

Hi,

As part of a project on geometry of moduli of curves ('stacky fans') I'm trying to implement `categories with finitely many objects and finitely many morphisms'. I've started creating a class FiniteCat, but I can't decide whether it should be a child of DiGraph (where I add extra data of composition) , or of Category, using the existing machinery around that.

For context, I'm going to start with creating a FiniteCat from a lattice/poset (with maybe a couple of hundred vertices), then adding in a few more interesting (auto)morphisms). The main purpose is that I want to look at (pre)sheaves on these categories, check whether certain collections of data define sections of these presheaves, and perform basic operations on them.

Any suggestions would be very welcome .

Thanks, David Holmes

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Hi David. Sounds like a nice project. You might also want to ask on sage-devel.

rburing gravatar imagerburing ( 2021-07-21 11:19:52 +0200 )edit