Adjoint functors and triples
Adjoint functors and triples
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DOI:
10.1215/ijm/1256068141
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发表时间:
1965-09
影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
S. Eilenberg;John C. Moore
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作者:
S. Eilenberg;John C. Moore
A riple F (F, ,) in ctegory a consists of functor F a nd morphisms la F, F F stisfying some identities (see 2, (T.1)-(T.3)) nlogous to those stisfied in monoid. Cotriples re defined dually. It has been recognized by Huber [4] that whenever one hs pir of adoint functors T a , S a (see 1), then the functor TS (with appropriate morphisms resulting from the adjointness relation) constitutes a triple in nd similarly ST yields cotriple in a. The main objective of this pper is to show that this relation between d-jointness nd triples is in some sense reversible. Given triple Y in a we define new ctegory a nd adoint functors T a a, S a a such that the triple given by TS coincides with. There my be mny adoint pirs which in this wy generate the triple Y, but among those there is a universal one (which therefore is in a sense the "best possible one") nd for this one the functor T is faithful (Theorem 2.2). This construction cn best be illustrated by n example. Let a be the ctegory of modules over a commu-tative ring K nd let A be K-lgebm. The functor F A@ together with morphisms nd resulting from the morphisms K A, h @ A A given by the K-algebra structure of A, yield then a triple Y a. The ctegory a is then precisely the ctegory of A-modules. The general construction of a closely resembles this example. As another example, let a be the category of sets nd let F be the functor which to ech set A ssigns the underlying set of the free group generated by A. There results triple Y in a nd a is the category of groups.