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Isbell Duality

Category Theory 2023-09-06 v2

Abstract

Mathematicians love dualities. After a brief explanation of dualities, with examples, we turn to one of the purest and most beautiful: Isbell duality. For any category C\mathsf{C}, this gives an adjunction between the category of presheaves on C\mathsf{C}, namely the functor category [Cop,Set][\mathsf{C}^{\text{op}}, \mathsf{Set}], and the opposite of the category of copresheaves on C\mathsf{C}, namely [C,Set]op[\mathsf{C}, \mathsf{Set}]^{\text{op}}.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11079,
  title  = {Isbell Duality},
  author = {John C. Baez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11079},
  year   = {2023}
}

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