relationship are known as adjoint functors, one being the left adjoint and the other the right adjoint. Pairs of adjoint functors are ubiquitous in mathematics...
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Look up adjoint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In mathematics, the term adjoint applies in several situations. Several of these share a similar formalism:...
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Limit (category theory) (redirect from Continuous functor)
colimits, like the strongly related notions of universal properties and adjoint functors, exist at a high level of abstraction. In order to understand them...
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concept of adjoint functors was introduced independently by Daniel Kan in 1958. Mathematics portal Free object Natural transformation Adjoint functor Monad...
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to the defining properties of pairs of adjoint functors in category theory, and this is where adjoint functors got their name from. Mathematical concepts...
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pairs of adjoint functors. Functors sometimes appear in functional programming. For instance, the programming language Haskell has a class Functor where...
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Monad (category theory) (redirect from Monadic functor)
are functors adjoint to each other, then T = G ∘ F {\displaystyle T=G\circ F} together with η , μ {\displaystyle \eta ,\mu } determined by the adjoint relation...
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Pre-abelian category (section Exact functors)
pre-abelian category, exact functors can be described in particularly simple terms. First, recall that an additive functor is a functor F: C → D between preadditive...
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other settings. From another point of view, representable functors for a category C are the functors given with C. Their theory is a vast generalisation of...
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Topos (redirect from Logical functors)
: X → Y {\displaystyle u:X\to Y} is a pair of adjoint functors (u∗,u∗) (where u∗ : Y → X is left adjoint to u∗ : X → Y) such that u∗ preserves finite limits...
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properties and adjoint functors. Let 1 be the discrete category with a single object (denoted by •), and let U : C → 1 be the unique (constant) functor to 1. Then...
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Commutative diagram (section Diagrams as functors)
Cat is naturally a 2-category, with functors as its arrows and natural transformations as the arrows between functors. In this setting, commutative diagrams...
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Transpose of a linear map (redirect from Algebraic adjoint)
transpose or algebraic adjoint of a linear map is often used to study the original linear map. This concept is generalised by adjoint functors. Let X # {\displaystyle...
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Preadditive category (redirect from Additive functors)
F:{\text{Hom}}(A,B)\rightarrow {\text{Hom}}(F(A),F(B))} is a group homomorphism. Most functors studied between preadditive categories are additive. For a simple example...
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in topology and more generally model categories. Two functors F: C → D and G: D → C are adjoint if for all objects c in C and d in D HomD(F(c), d) ≅ HomC(c...
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Natural transformation (category Functors)
to be a "morphism of functors". Informally, the notion of a natural transformation states that a particular map between functors can be done consistently...
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Additive category (section Additive functors)
must be additive functors (see here). Most of the interesting functors studied in category theory are adjoints. When considering functors between R-linear...
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Equivalence of categories (category Adjoint functors)
D→D denote the identity functors on C and D, assigning each object and morphism to itself. If F and G are contravariant functors one speaks of a duality...
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of a forgetful functor with no adjoint. There is no field satisfying a free universal property for a given set. Adjoint functors Functors Projection (set...
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Category theory (section Functors)
Adjoint functors: A functor can be left (or right) adjoint to another functor that maps in the opposite direction. Such a pair of adjoint functors typically...
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Change of rings (category Adjoint functors)
f^{*}N=N_{R}} , formed by restriction of scalars. They are related as adjoint functors: f ! : Mod R ⇆ Mod S : f ∗ {\displaystyle f_{!}:{\text{Mod}}_{R}\leftrightarrows...
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between objects) give rise to important functors to the category of sets. These functors are called hom-functors and have numerous applications in category...
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mathematics, the formal criteria for adjoint functors are criteria for the existence of a left or right adjoint of a given functor. One criterion is the following...
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be conceptually explained using the language of adjoint functors and derived categories: the functor between the derived categories of R- and k-modules...
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a branch of mathematics, a functor category D C {\displaystyle D^{C}} is a category where the objects are the functors F : C → D {\displaystyle F:C\to...
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then just a contravariant functor I → C. Let C I o p {\displaystyle C^{I^{\mathrm {op} }}} be the category of these functors (with natural transformations...
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Free object (redirect from Free functor)
objects exist in C, the functor F, called the free functor is a left adjoint to the faithful functor U; that is, there is a bijection Hom S e t ( X ...
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and homotopy classes of continuous maps, whence the name. A pair of adjoint functors F : C ⇆ D : G {\displaystyle F:C\leftrightarrows D:G} between two model...
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functors are adjoint to each other as depicted at the right, where, as usual, F ⇆ G {\displaystyle F\leftrightarrows G} means that F is left adjoint to...
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Subcategory (redirect from Inclusion functor)
composition are as in C. There is an obvious faithful functor I : S → C, called the inclusion functor which takes objects and morphisms to themselves. Let...
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