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In category theory, if C is a category and is a set-valued functor, the category of elements of F (also denoted by ∫CF) is the category defined as follows: * Objects are pairs where and . * An arrow is an arrow in C such that . A more concise way to state this is that the category of elements of F is the comma category , where is a one-point set. The category of elements of F comes with a natural projection that sends an object (A,a) to A, and an arrow to its underlying arrow in C. == The category of elements of a presheaf == Somewhat confusingly in some texts (e.g. Mac Lane, Moerdijk), the category of elements for a presheaf is defined differently. If , or, to make the distinction to the above definition clear, ∫C P) is the category defined as follows: * Objects are pairs where and . * An arrow is an arrow in C such that . As one sees, the direction of the arrows is reversed. One can, once again, state this definition in a more concise manner: the category just defined is nothing but . Consequentially, in the spirit of adding a "co" in front of the name for a construction to denote its opposite, one should rather call this category the category of coelements of P. For C small, this construction can be extended into a functor ∫C from to , the category of small categories. In fact, using the Yoneda lemma one can show that ∫CP is the Yoneda embedding. This isomorphism is natural in P and thus the functor ∫C is naturally isomorphic to . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Category of elements」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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