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adjoint functor

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foundations of mathematics
Isomorphic structures
…in foundations and elsewhere are adjoint functors (F,G). These are pairs of functors between two categories 𝒜 and ℬ, which go in opposite directions such that a one-to-one correspondence exists between the set of arrows F(A) → B in ℬ and the set of arrows A → G(B) in 𝒜—that…
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…in foundations and elsewhere are adjoint functors (F,G). These are pairs of functors between two categories 𝒜 and ℬ, which go in opposite directions such that a one-to-one correspondence exists between the set of arrows F(A) → B in ℬ and the set of arrows A → G(B) in 𝒜—that…
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