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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 17 1 i Solution by
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Write the adjunction as the natural bijectionThe unit of an adjunction and counit of an adjunction are the natural transformations whose components areNaturality of the hom-set bijections gives, for and ,For example, postcomposition by in the first hom-set corresponds to postcomposition by in the second, giving the first formula; naturality in gives the second. The same naturality says that, for and ,Thus these components do define the asserted natural transformations and .
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