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The hom-set form of an adjunction needs no size hypothesis

Statement

The hom-set formulation D(Fc,d)≅C(c,Gd) of an adjunction is meaningful without any local-smallness hypothesis.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The class Ord of all ordinals.

[F1]

A category is locally small exactly when every hom-class is a set; a large category may still be locally small (Small, locally small, and large categories).

[F2]

Ordinal addition is specified by α+0=α, α+(β+1)=(α+β)+1, and α+λ=⋃β<λ(α+β) for nonzero limit λ (Ordinal addition α+β).

[F3]

Ordinal addition is associative: (α+β)+γ=α+(β+γ) for all ordinals α,β,γ (Ordinal addition is associative).

[F4]

The ordinals form a proper class: no set contains every ordinal (Burali-Forti: there is no set of all ordinals).

[L1]

An adjunction is specified by functors, a unit, a counit, and the two triangle identities, without a hom-set hypothesis (Adjunction by unit, counit, and the triangle identities).

Refutation

technique · direct
1.1F2F3inductionconstruct

Form a one-object category O whose endomorphism class is Ord, whose identity is 0, and whose composition is ordinal addition. The zero clause in [F2] gives α+0=α directly. The other identity law 0+α=α needs all three clauses and transfinite induction on α: the zero clause gives 0+0=0; the successor clause gives 0+(β+1)=(0+β)+1=β+1 from the inductive hypothesis; and for a nonzero limit λ the limit clause gives 0+λ=⋃β<λ(0+β)=⋃β<λβ=λ. Associativity is [F3].

2.1step 1.1F1F4

Its only hom-class is the proper class Ord by [F4], so O is not locally small by [F1]. Consequently O(∗,∗) is not a hom-set and cannot be an object of Set.

3.1step 2.1L1∎

Thus a Set-valued hom-set bijection is not even meaningful in this example, whereas [L1] explains why unit-counit data remain the size-free formulation. The statement is false.

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