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The prototype for preadditive category is the category 
of all abelian groups. This category plays an important role in mathematics. Preadditive and additive categories are natural generalizations of the category . They play an important role in the theory of categories and elsewhere.
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Popescu, N., Popescu, L. (1979). Abelian categories. In: Theory of categories. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9550-5_4
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