Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2009/iii/paper-23/5/c/solution

For a categorical presheaf on the open subsets, define the functors on objects by
To prove , a natural transformation must satisfy
for every open , since the restrictions of are identities. Thus it is determined by the function . Conversely such a function defines all by that equation, and the categorical presheaf restriction laws make the components compatible. Hence
For the other adjunction, a transformation is determined by its component , since
Every function supplies compatible components by this formula. Therefore , giving the adjoints to constant presheaves on open sets:
These are adjoints of the stated constant-presheaf functor, with its value at every open set including the empty one; no sheafification is involved.

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