adjoint functor

noun

Etymology

See Galois connection.

Definitions

  1. One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical…

    One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical to the codomain and domain of the other one, respectively, and such that there is a pair of natural transformations which turns the pair of functors into an adjunction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for adjoint functor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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