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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 119 6 a Solution by
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For a locally small category , the Yoneda lemma states thatnaturally in both and . Taking givesso the Yoneda embedding is full and faithful.
For small , the presheaf category has pointwise finite limits and colimits, exponentialand a subobject classifier whose elements at are sieves on . Hence it is a presheaf topos.
If has finite limits, the Yoneda embedding preserves them: maps into a limiting object are the corresponding limits of hom-sets. Its essential image is therefore a full subcategory of the presheaf topos closed under finite limits. Since Yoneda is full and faithful, this proves the assertion up to equivalence.
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