##  [Lawvere Theory](/lawvere-theory) 

  ##  [Lawvere Theory](https://puremath.quantumdictionary.io/lawvere-theory-0) 

  

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Definition

A Lawvere theory is a small category with finite products whose objects are finite powers of a distinguished object (often indexed by natural numbers), used to present finitary single-sorted algebraic theories: operations are morphisms and equations are commuting diagrams.

 

 

 

 

 





 

 



 ##  [Lawvere Theory](https://algebra.quantumdictionary.io/lawvere-theory-1) 

  

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Definition

A small category with finite products whose objects are finite powers of a distinguished object and whose product-preserving functors into Set correspond to models of a finitary algebraic theory; it encodes algebraic operations and equations categorically.