Representable contravariant functor

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Definition

Suppose C is a category and F:CSet is a contravariant functor to the category of sets. We say that F is representable if there exists a natural isomorphism between F and the contravariant Hom functor corresponding to some object AObC.

There is a related notion of representable functor, used for (covariant) functors.