contravariant power set functor
- notation: : →
- Source: dual of the category of sets
- Target: category of sets
- Related functors:
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This functor maps a set to its power set and a map of sets to the induced preimage operator . It is isomorphic to the representable functor .
Satisfied Properties
Assigned properties
- is representable
- preserves epimorphisms
- is conservative
- is a right adjoint
- preserves reflexive coequalizers
Deduced properties
Unsatisfied Properties
Assigned properties
- is not full
- does not preserve initial objects
- is not essentially surjective
- does not preserve coequalizers
- is not finitary
- is not left-invertible
Deduced properties*
- is not an equivalence
- is not cocontinuous
- does not preserve finite coproducts
- is not right exact
- is not exact
- is not a left adjoint
- does not preserve coproducts
- is not comonadic
*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.
Unknown properties
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Undecidable properties
There is 1 property for which it cannot be decided if it is satisfied or not.