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Tiny covariant functor on a Cauchy-complete category with an initial object is representable

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Let C be a small Cauchy-complete category with initial object 0. The terminal object of [C,Set] is h0​, so Nat(P,F)≅(FP)(0). If P is tiny, exponentiation by P is itself a left adjoint and preserves all colimits. Evaluation at zero also preserves colimits. Consequently Nat(P,−) preserves coproducts and epimorphisms, since every epimorphism in a set-valued functor category is the coequalizer of its kernel pair. Thus P is an irreducible projective in a set-valued functor category, hence representable.

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