Adjoint functors

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Definition

Suppose C and D are categories. Suppose F:CD and G:DC are functors. We say that F is a left-adjoint functor to G (equivalently, G is a right-adjoint functor to F) if for every AObC,BObD, we can define a map:

ηAB:D(FA,B)C(A,GB)

such that ηAB is a natural transformation in each variable, keeping the other fixed. More precisely:

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