Permutation category

In mathematics, the permutation category[1] is a category where

  1. an object is a natural number,
  2. a morphism is an element of the symmetric group when and is none otherwise.

It is equivalent as an category to the category of finite sets and bijections between them.

References

  1. Trimble, § 1


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