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Adjunction

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounThe act of joining; the thing joined or added.
2.NounThe joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
3.NounThe process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
"The ring obtained after the adjunction of the elements a , b {\displaystyle a,b} and y {\displaystyle y} to the ring R {\displaystyle R} may be denoted R [ a , b , y ] {\displaystyle R[a,b,y]} .; The field adjunction Q ( π ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (\pi )} can be obtained from Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } by adjoining π {\displaystyle \pi } to Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } ."
4.NounA relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
5.NounA natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object. (formally, given two categories C {\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}} and D {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}} and (covariant) functors F : C → D {\displaystyle F:{\mathcal {C}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {D}}} and G : D → C {\displaystyle G:{\mathcal {D}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {C}}} ) A natural isomorphism Φ : Hom C ⁡ ( G ⋅ , ⋅ ) → Hom D ⁡ ( ⋅ , F ⋅ ) {\displaystyle \Phi :\operatorname {Hom} _{\mathcal {C}}(G\cdot ,\cdot )\to \operatorname {Hom} _{\mathcal {D}}(\cdot ,F\cdot )} (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from D op × C {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\operatorname {op} }\times {\mathcal {C}}} to S e t {\displaystyle \mathbf {Set} } ). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .
6.Noun(formally, given two categories C {\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}} and D {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}} and (covariant) functors F : C → D {\displaystyle F:{\mathcal {C}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {D}}} and G : D → C {\displaystyle G:{\mathcal {D}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {C}}} ) A natural isomorphism Φ : Hom C ⁡ ( G ⋅ , ⋅ ) → Hom D ⁡ ( ⋅ , F ⋅ ) {\displaystyle \Phi :\operatorname {Hom} _{\mathcal {C}}(G\cdot ,\cdot )\to \operatorname {Hom} _{\mathcal {D}}(\cdot ,F\cdot )} (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from D op × C {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\operatorname {op} }\times {\mathcal {C}}} to S e t {\displaystyle \mathbf {Set} } ). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .
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