Limit form of the special adjoint functor theorem
ID: limit-form-of-the-special-adjoint-functor-theorem
A functor from a locally small category that is complete and well-powered, with a small cogenerating family, to a locally small category has a left adjoint exactly when it preserves small categorical limits. For sufficiency, the cogenerator bound for comma-category solution sets produces a weakly initial set in each complete comma category . The initial-object lemma for complete categories with a weakly initial set supplies its initial object, a universal arrow from an object to a functor. Necessity is limit preservation by a right adjoint.
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