G -sets are nothing but functors from this category to Set The category of all directed graphs is cartesian closed; this is a functor category as e...

Namely, we can demand the existence of a tensor product that is left adjoint to the internal Hom functor . In this approach, closed monoidal catego...

If there is a monoidal functor from a monoidal category M to a monoidal category N , then any category enriched over M can be reinterpreted as a ca...

Yoneda's lemma asserts that every natural transformation between Hom functors is of this form. In other words, the Hom functors give rise to a full...

Diagonal functor : The diagonal functor is defined as the functor from D to the functor category D C which sends each object in D to the constant f...

Problems formulated with adjoint functors 1.3 Adjoint functors as solving optimization problems 1.4 The case of partial orders 2 Formal definitions...

Limits and universal morphisms Colimits in comma categories may be "inherited". If and are cocomplete, is a cocontinuous functor, and another funct...

It follows that if coproducts exists in a given category (they need not) they are unique up to a unique isomorphism that respects the injections. I...

It follows that any functor which preserves limits will take terminal objects to terminal objects, and any functor which preserves colimits will ta...

Functors Main article: functor Functors are structure-preserving maps between categories. They can be thought of as morphisms in the category of al...

C ) can be made precise in several ways; the most succinct formulation uses the language of adjoint functors . Every functor F  : D ? E induces a f...

Set (with the monoidal structure induced by the cartesian product) is a monoid in the usual sense. A monoid object in Top (with the monoidal struct...