DIRECTPRODUCT

Direct product

In mathematics, one can often define a direct product of objectsalready known, giving a new one. This is generally the Cartesian product of the underlying sets, together with a suitably defined structure on the product set.

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direct product

Noun

  1. The set of functions from the indexing set of an indexed family of sets to the union of the family, whose values at any given index lie in the set indexed thereby.
    For example, if A and B are sets, their direct product is the set of pairs (a,b) with a in A and b in B.
  2. The generalization of direct product (1) to arbitrary categories.


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