Final functor
In Category theory, the notion of final functor (resp., initial functor) is a generalization of the notion of final object (resp., initial object) in a category.
A functor is called final if, for any set-valued functor , the colimit of G is the same as the colimit of . Note that an object d∈Ob(D) is a final object in the usual sense if and only if the functor is a final functor as defined here.
The notion of initial functor is defined as above, replacing final by initial and colimit by limit.
References
- Adámek, J.; Rosický, J.; Vitale, E. M. (2010), Algebraic Theories: A Categorical Introduction to General Algebra, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 184, Cambridge University Press, Definition 2.12, p. 24, ISBN 9781139491884.
- Cordier, J. M.; Porter, T. (2013), Shape Theory: Categorical Methods of Approximation, Dover Books on Mathematics, Courier Corporation, p. 37, ISBN 9780486783475.
- Riehl, Emily (2014), Categorical Homotopy Theory, New Mathematical Monographs, 24, Cambridge University Press, Definition 8.3.2, p. 127.
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