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From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: "categories" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: theorem about ends
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:06:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PmV4p-0004OE-Tf@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

Paul Blain Levy asks:

> Does the following result (which I learnt from Rasmus Mogelberg)
> appear in the literature somewhere?
> 
> Given categories C and D, a functor P : C^op x D --> Set and an
> adjunction F -| U : D --> C
> 
> the end over c in C of P(c,Fc) is (isomorphic to) the end over d in D
> of P(Ud,d).

For well over 40 years I've always thought of that as 
the Beck/Lawvere vision of what an adjunction *is* :-) .

Cheers, -- Fred





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             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-07  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07  3:06 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
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2011-02-07  5:04 ` Richard Garner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-07  0:25 Paul Levy
2011-02-07  3:00 ` Steve Lack
2011-02-07  4:35 ` Richard Garner
2011-02-07 11:26 ` Ross Street

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