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Construction 1.3.5.4. Let $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}$ be a category. We define a subcategory $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}^{\simeq } \subseteq \operatorname{\mathcal{C}}$ as follows:

  • Every object of $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}$ belongs to $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}^{\simeq }$.

  • A morphism $f: X \rightarrow Y$ of $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}$ belongs to $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}^{\simeq }$ if and only if $f$ is an isomorphism.

We will refer to $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}^{\simeq }$ as the core of $\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}$.