How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
A supplied pointwise right adjoint extends uniquely to a functor
Statement
Let be a functor between locally small categories. Suppose an object is supplied for every , together with an isomorphism
natural in the variable of . Then the object assignment has a unique functor structure for which the are natural in , and .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The functor , supplied objects , and representing isomorphisms as in the Statement.
A representation of a presheaf is an object together with a natural isomorphism from the corresponding representable presheaf (Presheaves, covariantly and contravariantly representable functors, and representations).
The Yoneda bijection is natural in both the represented object and the presheaf, so a natural transformation between represented presheaves is induced by a unique morphism between their representing objects (The Yoneda bijection is natural in both and ).
A natural family determines an adjunction (Under local smallness, transposition gives the natural hom-set bijection, and conversely).
Proof
For , postcomposition by gives a natural transformation . Transport it through and ; [F2] supplies a unique morphism representing the result.
Postcomposition by an identity is the identity transformation, so Yoneda uniqueness gives .
Postcomposition by is the composite of postcomposition by and by , so Yoneda uniqueness gives . Thus is a functor.
The definition in step 1.1 makes natural in ; it was natural in by hypothesis. Therefore [L1] gives .
If another functor structure made every natural, its value on would induce the same transported natural transformation, so [F2] would force it to equal . The supplied object assignment also shows that no class-sized selection was made in the proof.
Depends on
Used by
Dependency tree · next 3 levels
Direct dependencies and their dependencies through the next three levels: 26 results over 10 levels. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, and this result sits at the bottom with a heavier outline. Click the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context, 2nd ed., Proposition 4.4.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Tom Leinster, Basic Category Theory, Section 4.2 (standard reference, not scraped)