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The functor of continuous functions from compact CW-spaces to the reals
The contravariant functor $C(-)$ given by
$$
\hom_{Top}(-,\mathbb{R}):cCW\to Rng
$$
where $cCW$ is the category of compact CW complexes is injective on objects. What is known about surjectivity, faithfulness and fullness of this functor?
