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Is this a correct proof that Ban is counital? #257

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@dschepler

I just happened to notice that "counital" is currently not settled for the category of Banach spaces with linear contractions. After a bit of thought, I came up with this possible proof, which I'm not confident in though:
Suppose we have an epimorphism $A \twoheadrightarrow B$ with maps $f : A \to X \sqcup Y$ and $g : B \to X \times Y$ making a commutative square. Then the function $B \to \mathbb{R}$, $b \mapsto |b|_B - |p_1(b)|_X - |p_2(b)|_Y$, is a continuous function, and it's non-negative on the image of $A$. Since the image of $A$ is dense in $B$, that implies the function is non-negative everywhere on $B$, implying that $g$ factors through $X \sqcup Y$. That establishes that $X \sqcup Y \to X \times Y$ is a strong monomorphism.

And assuming that's correct, then that would give lots of examples of strong monomorphisms which are not regular, implying that Ban is not coregular.

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