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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 20 1 ii Solution by
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Define the Yoneda embedding by and . For , define . Associativity proves naturality in , and preservation of identity morphisms and composition in a category proves that is a functor.
Apply the Yoneda lemma to . It givesThe natural transformation corresponding to has component , exactly . Therefore the induced map on every hom-set is a bijection: the Yoneda embedding is full and faithful.
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