In dictionaries:
forgetful functor
(category theory) a functor that forgets or drops some or all of its input's structure or properties before mapping to the output
functor category
(category theory) A category whose objects are functors (from some fixed given domain category to some fixed given codomain category) and whose morphisms are natural transformations.
contravariant functor
Maps objects and morphisms oppositely.
identity functor
(category theory) A functor from a category to itself which maps each object of that category to itself and each morphism of that category to itself.
covariant functor
Maps objects and morphisms consistently.
adjoint functor
(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.
inclusion functor
representable functor
(category theory) A functor from some category to the category of sets (Set) which is naturally isomorphic to a hom functor.
Derived functor
In mathematics, certain functors may be derived to obtain other functors closely related to the original ones.
faithful functor
(category theory) A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is injective into the corresponding target hom-set.
additive functor
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