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  • Oct 27, 2026, 4:14 PM

    @soaproot I believe your definition of finitely supported function is correct when the domain is a discrete set. When I is not necessarily discrete and A is a pointed set (a set with a zero element), I would propose to define a finitely supported function from I to A to be an element of the colimit of all sets Map(J, A), taken over all maps J -> I where J is a finite set.

    When I is discrete, one can restrict to subsets J of I and one recovers your description. Note that if I is not discrete, there is no natural map from my proposed colimit to the set Map(I, A), so "finitely supported function" is no longer a special case of "function", but something different.

    This thread is related:
    mathoverflow.net/questions/302

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  • Oct 27, 2026, 4:45 PM

    @jdw Good point, I have some text saying I've only really been thinking of the case where the domain of the function has decidable equality, but that is worth emphasizing. The tuples of exponents in my thread have decidable equality, in particular. But thanks for the thoughts of what would happen without that condition.

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