[001J] -1·e.

These are, in fact, the results obtained first in (Guitart, 1977), because to reach the notion of exact squares, we started from R. Paré (Paré, 1969) absolute limits, we went through the Beck-Chevalley condition (Chevalley, 1964-1965) and the zig-zag theorem of Isbell (Guitart, 1982), and we only belatedly observed the connection of these questions with the exact squares in abelian categories (in the sense of Lambek (Lambek, 1958), Mac Lane, Brinkman-Puppe, Hilton (Hilton, 1966)), which suggested 1·f [001V] and Remark 1·i [001Y] definitions of Section 1 [001A].