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Mathlib.CategoryTheory.Limits.EpiMono

Relation between mono/epi and pullback/pushout squares #

In this file, monomorphisms and epimorphisms are characterized in terms of pullback and pushout squares. For example, we obtain mono_iff_isPullback which asserts that a morphism f : X ⟶ Y is a monomorphism iff the obvious square

X ⟶ X
|   |
v   v
X ⟶ Y

is a pullback square.