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My nice nats

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context F in DC
context G in CD
definiendum α,β in it
inclusion α:FG1C
inclusion β:1DGF

Discussion

That silly name … I made it up.

The natural transformation β:1DGF squeezes every set XD into a set GFXD (although this need not be surjective or injective). The natural transformation α:FG1C squeezes all sets FGX in the image of FG back into X. The latter operation gets rid of lots FG's without changing the structural properties of C.

The point is that my equivalence of categories and Counit-unit adjunction are two different important special cases of nice nats. In the former case, the two nats actually shift the whole content of a category internally. In the latter case, the two nats end up defining the shifting operations of a monad.

Theorems

Only when the nats are isomorphisms (as in my equivalence of categories) is F fully faithful and dense.

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