Essential image of a functor #
The essential image essImage
of a functor consists of the objects in the target category which
are isomorphic to an object in the image of the object function.
This, for instance, allows us to talk about objects belonging to a subcategory expressed as a
functor rather than a subtype, preserving the principle of equivalence. For example this lets us
define exponential ideals.
The essential image can also be seen as a subcategory of the target category, and witnesses that a functor decomposes into an essentially surjective functor and a fully faithful functor. (TODO: show that this decomposition forms an orthogonal factorisation system).
The essential image of a functor F
consists of those objects in the target category which are
isomorphic to an object in the image of the function F.obj
. In other words, this is the closure
under isomorphism of the function F.obj
.
This is the "non-evil" way of describing the image of a functor.
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- CategoryTheory.Functor.essImage F Y = ∃ (X : C), Nonempty (F.toPrefunctor.obj X ≅ Y)
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Get the witnessing object that Y
is in the subcategory given by F
.
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Extract the isomorphism between F.obj h.witness
and Y
itself.
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- CategoryTheory.Functor.essImage.getIso h = Classical.choice (_ : Nonempty (F.toPrefunctor.obj (Exists.choose h) ≅ Y))
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Being in the essential image is a "hygienic" property: it is preserved under isomorphism.
If Y
is in the essential image of F
then it is in the essential image of F'
as long as
F ≅ F'
.
Isomorphic functors have equal essential images.
An object in the image is in the essential image.
The essential image of a functor, interpreted as a full subcategory of the target category.
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- CategoryTheory.Functor.instCategoryEssImageSubcategory = inferInstance
The essential image as a subcategory has a fully faithful inclusion into the target category.
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- CategoryTheory.Functor.instFullEssImageSubcategoryInstCategoryEssImageSubcategoryEssImageInclusion = inferInstance
Given a functor F : C ⥤ D
, we have an (essentially surjective) functor from C
to the essential
image of F
.
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- CategoryTheory.Functor.toEssImage F = CategoryTheory.FullSubcategory.lift (CategoryTheory.Functor.essImage F) F (_ : ∀ (Y : C), F.toPrefunctor.obj Y ∈ CategoryTheory.Functor.essImage F)
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The functor F
factorises through its essential image, where the first functor is essentially
surjective and the second is fully faithful.
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A functor F : C ⥤ D
is essentially surjective if every object of D
is in the essential
image of F
. In other words, for every Y : D
, there is some X : C
with F.obj X ≅ Y
.
See
- mem_essImage : ∀ (Y : D), Y ∈ CategoryTheory.Functor.essImage F
All the objects of the target category are in the essential image.
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Given an essentially surjective functor, we can find a preimage for every object Y
in the
codomain. Applying the functor to this preimage will yield an object isomorphic to Y
, see
obj_obj_preimage_iso
.
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Applying an essentially surjective functor to a preimage of Y
yields an object that is
isomorphic to Y
.
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The induced functor of a faithful functor is faithful.
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The induced functor of a full functor is full.
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- (_ : CategoryTheory.EssSurj (CategoryTheory.Functor.id C)) = (_ : CategoryTheory.EssSurj (CategoryTheory.Functor.id C))