The Euler characteristic of a category

zbMath1139.18009arXivmath/0610260MaRDI QIDQ2479731

Tom Leinster

Publication date: 2 April 2008

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610260

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicMöbius inversioninclusion-exclusionfinite categorycardinality of colimit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Categories in geometry and topology (18F99) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Applied homological algebra and category theory in algebraic topology (55U99)

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