[1][clarification needed] The Q stands for a quotient.
The concept of Q-categories was introduced by Alexander Rosenberg in 1988.
[2] The motivation for the notion was its use in noncommutative algebraic geometry; in this formalism, noncommutative spaces are defined as sheaves on Q-categories.
A Q-category is defined by the formula[1][further explanation needed]
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