Retract criterion for surjective presheaf geometric morphisms

ID: retract-criterion-for-surjective-presheaf-geometric-morphisms

For a functor , restriction of presheaves is faithful exactly when every is a retract in a category of some . Sufficiency follows by recovering a natural-transformation component at from its component at using the retraction. For necessity, the subpresheaf of consisting of arrows factoring through some becomes the whole representable after restriction. Faithfulness of a geometric inverse image reflects such a monomorphism being an isomorphism. The identity of must therefore factor through a , giving the retraction.

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