adjoint functor
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See Galois connection.
Noun
[edit]adjoint functor (plural adjoint functors)
- (category theory) One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical to the codomain and domain of the other one, respectively, and such that there is a pair of natural transformations which turns the pair of functors into an adjunction.