Category theory MOC

Representable functor

A functor 𝐹 :𝖢 →𝖲𝖾𝗍 is representable iff it is naturally isomorphic to the fixed-domain Hom-functor ℎ𝐶 =𝖢(𝐶, −) for some object 𝐶 ∈𝖢 #m/def/cat

𝜂:ℎ𝐶⇒𝐹:𝖢→𝖲𝖾𝗍

whence (𝐶,𝜂) is called a representation of 𝐹.


#state/develop | #lang/en | #SemBr