Pullback

This article is about the uses of the term "pullback" in mathematics. For other uses, see Pull back (disambiguation).

In mathematics, a pullback is either of two related processes: precomposition and fiber-product; precomposition is a special case of the general fiber-product. Its dual is a pushforward.

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