In category with finite products, the following squares must be pullbacks, for any morphisms :
as must the naturality square for the symmetry , the product on one side or the other with an identity morphism of a pullback square (which we will call type D), and the pasting of two pullback squares side by side. These pullbacks must be preserved by any product-preserving functor, so we call them product-absolute.
This fact was already noted for squares of types A and C by Lawvere; the others are given by Seely. See also Todd Trimble’s exposition, noting in particular that the squares expressing coassociativity of diagonal maps are product-absolute pullbacks, which we call type E.
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