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equivalence of categories

equivalence of categories noun: an adjunction whose unit and counit are both natural isomorphisms.

Noun

equivalence of categories (plural equivalences of categories)

  1. An adjunction whose unit and counit are both natural isomorphisms.
    • There is an equivalence of categories between the category of simply typed lambda calculi and the category of cartesian closed categories; this was shown by Lambek and Scott.
    • The defining feature of algebraic geometry is the remarkable fact that not only does the geometry determine the algebra, but conversely, the algebra determines the geometry. That is, given any finitely generated #92;mathbb#123;C#125;-algebra R without nilpotent elements, there exists an affine...©2000, Karen E. Smith with Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, and William Traves, edited by S. Axler, F.W. Gehring, and K.A. Ribet, An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry (Universitext), New York...

Forms of equivalence of categories

pluralequivalences of categories

Questions about equivalence of categories

What does equivalence of categories mean?
Equivalence of categories means an adjunction whose unit and counit are both natural isomorphisms.
What part of speech is equivalence of categories?
Equivalence of categories is a noun.
What is the plural of equivalence of categories?
The plural of equivalence of categories is equivalences of categories.

Words near equivalence of categories in the dictionary

  1. equivalence
  2. equivalence class
  3. equivalence classes
  4. equivalence gate
  5. equivalence gates
  6. equivalence of categories
  7. equivalence principle
  8. equivalence principles
  9. equivalence relation
  10. equivalence relations
  11. equivalenced

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