Metamath Proof Explorer


Theorem cringcat

Description: The restriction of the category of (unital) rings to the set of commutative ring homomorphisms is a category, the "category of commutative rings". (Contributed by AV, 19-Feb-2020)

Ref Expression
Hypotheses crhmsubc.c ⊢ C = U ∩ CRing
crhmsubc.j ⊢ J = r ∈ C , s ∈ C ⟼ r RingHom s
Assertion cringcat ⊢ U ∈ V → RingCat ⁡ U ↾ cat J ∈ Cat

Proof

Step Hyp Ref Expression
1 crhmsubc.c ⊢ C = U ∩ CRing
2 crhmsubc.j ⊢ J = r ∈ C , s ∈ C ⟼ r RingHom s
3 eqid ⊢ RingCat ⁡ U ↾ cat J = RingCat ⁡ U ↾ cat J
4 1 2 crhmsubc ⊢ U ∈ V → J ∈ Subcat ⁡ RingCat ⁡ U
5 3 4 subccat ⊢ U ∈ V → RingCat ⁡ U ↾ cat J ∈ Cat