Category theory MOC

Representable functor

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

𝜂:𝐶𝐹:𝖢𝖲𝖾𝗍

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


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