Re: Fundamental Theorem of Category Theory
Dear All The Fundamental Theorem of Category Theory, to my mind, encompasses all the facts surrounding the fact that the presheaf category PA is the bicategorically free small-cocompletion of a small category A. With my students I have always called it: "The Whole Kan Business". It can be expressed something like this: Theorem. For each small category A and small-cocomplete category X, left Kan extension along the Yoneda embedding y_A : A --> PA provides an equivalence of categories [A,X] --> Cocts[PA,X] where the codomain is the full subcategory of the functor category [PA,X] consisting of the small-colimit-preserving functors. Moreover, the value of the equivalence at j : A --> X has a right adjoint given by x |--> X(j-,x). Ross [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
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