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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 74 4 Solution by
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The two introductory requests can be settled before the lettered applications. In the functor category , finite limits and finite unions of subobjects are pointwise. The component of the diagonal at is ordinary equality on . Its only possible complement isThis forms a subfunctor exactly when each sends unequal elements to unequal elements, equivalently when every is injective. In that case and the diagonal are disjoint and their union is at every component. Conversely, a diagonal complement must have these components and be stable under every transition map. Hence is decidable exactly when every transition map is injective.
Regard a monoid as a one-object category; a covariant set-valued functor is a left M-set. Give the diagonal left action . LetRight multiplication on the first coordinate commutes with the diagonal left action, so remains equivariant. The formula obeys and . Evaluation isIt is equivariant because .
For an equivariant , defineThis is equivariant in , and . Evaluation recovers . Conversely, currying the evaluation of a map recovers that map by its equivariance. This proves the exponential universal property and the natural identificationwith exactly the stated action. In particular, decidability in a set-valued functor category says that a left M-set is decidable if and only if each of its action maps is injective.
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