Timeline for What is an intuitive view of adjoints? (version 1: category theory)
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 22:33 | comment | added | safak | In which sense a functor poses a question? For example, what is the problem posed by the functor $M\rightarrow M\otimes_A B$? | |
| Jan 2, 2011 at 3:49 | comment | added | QcH |
In the last section, should it be $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb{Z}[t])$ instead?
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| Nov 23, 2009 at 23:42 | history | edited | Andrew Critch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2009 at 20:41 | history | edited | Andrew Critch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2009 at 19:34 | comment | added | marc | Just to emphasize on part of this response, note that an adjoint pair provides a global solution (category-wide) as opposed to a local solution provided by universal maps. So universality is more general, in that if the universal map exists for every object in the category, the family of universal maps can be used to define an adjoint. | |
| Nov 23, 2009 at 10:43 | history | edited | Andrew Critch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2009 at 10:37 | history | edited | Andrew Critch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2009 at 10:14 | history | answered | Andrew Critch | CC BY-SA 2.5 |