nLab projective limit

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Category theory

Limits and colimits

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Generally, a projective limit is the same thing as a limit. (Similarly, an inductive limit is the same thing as a colimit.) In this context, a projective system is the same thing as a diagram, and a projective cone is the same thing as a cone.

However, many authors restrict this terminology to limits over codirected sets (or cofiltered categories), especially the codirected set (,)(\mathbb{N},\geq) of natural numbers; see codirected limit (or cofiltered limit) for discussion of this case if you think that it may be what you want.

The dual concept is inductive limit.

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