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The hom-set form of an adjunction needs no size hypothesis
Statement
The hom-set formulation of an adjunction is meaningful without any local-smallness hypothesis.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The class of all ordinals.
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).
Ordinal addition is specified by , , and for nonzero limit (Ordinal addition ).
Ordinal addition is associative: for all ordinals (Ordinal addition is associative).
The ordinals form a proper class: no set contains every ordinal (Burali-Forti: there is no set of all ordinals).
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
Form a one-object category whose endomorphism class is , whose identity is , and whose composition is ordinal addition. The zero clause in [F2] gives directly. The other identity law needs all three clauses and transfinite induction on : the zero clause gives ; the successor clause gives from the inductive hypothesis; and for a nonzero limit the limit clause gives . Associativity is [F3].
Its only hom-class is the proper class by [F4], so is not locally small by [F1]. Consequently is not a hom-set and cannot be an object of .
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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Sources
- Tom Leinster, Basic Category Theory, Definition 2.1.1 (standard reference, not scraped)