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Fully Faithful Functor


A fully faithful functor F:C->D is a functor for which the induced function

 Hom_(C)(A,B)->Hom_(D)(F(A),F(B)),

is a bijection for every pair of objects A,B of C. Equivalently, F is a faithful functor because each such function is an injection, and full because each is a surjection. Thus a fully faithful functor preserves all morphisms between objects and introduces no additional morphisms between their images.


See also

Bijection, Faithful Functor, Functor, Hom Functor, Injection, Surjection

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References

Mac Lane, S. Categories for the Working Mathematician. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9839-7.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Fully Faithful Functor." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FullyFaithfulFunctor.html

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