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Fullness and faithfulness of a right adjoint are detected by its counit
Statement
Let be an adjunction between locally small categories, with counit .
- is faithful if and only if every is an epimorphism.
- is full if and only if every is a split monomorphism.
- is fully faithful if and only if is a natural isomorphism.
Dually, is faithful exactly when every unit component is monic, full exactly when every unit component is split epic, and fully faithful exactly when the unit is a natural isomorphism.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The adjunction in the Statement, with unit and counit .
A functor is faithful when every induced hom-set map is injective, full when every such map is surjective, and fully faithful when every such map is bijective (Faithful, full, fully faithful, essentially surjective, and split essentially surjective functors).
A morphism is epic when implies for every parallel pair (Monomorphism and epimorphism by left and right cancellation).
A morphism is a split monomorphism when there is with (Split monomorphism, split epimorphism, retraction, and section).
Transposition gives natural bijections (Under local smallness, transposition gives the natural hom-set bijection, and conversely).
Proof
If is faithful and , then ; composing with and using the triangle identity gives , hence . Thus each is epic.
Conversely, if every is epic and , naturality gives , so . Hence is faithful.
If is full, lift to with . Naturality of and the first triangle identity give , so is split monic.
Conversely, choose with . Then is the inverse of , whose right inverse is by the triangle identity, so . For , the morphism satisfies , using naturality of and the triangle identity. Thus is full.
A fully faithful makes both epic and split monic by steps 1.1 and 1.3; if , epicity gives , so is an isomorphism. Conversely, an invertible counit is epic and split monic, so steps 1.2 and 2.1 make fully faithful.
Passing to opposite categories exchanges the counit with the unit, faithful with faithful, epic with monic, and split monic with split epic, proving the dual assertions.
Depends on
- Under local smallness, transposition gives the natural hom-set bijection, and conversely
- Faithful, full, fully faithful, essentially surjective, and split essentially surjective functors
- Monomorphism and epimorphism by left and right cancellation
- Split monomorphism, split epimorphism, retraction, and section
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Sources
- Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context, 2nd ed., Lemma 4.6.11 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Saunders Mac Lane, Categories for the Working Mathematician, 2nd ed., Chapter IV.3 (standard reference, not scraped)