Definition 3.1 (Adjunction, D. Kan 1958). Let C and D be categories. An adjunction between C and D consists of functors F:CD and G:DC together with, for each AobC and BobD, a bijection between morphisms FAB in D and morphisms AGB in C, which is natural in A and B. (If C and D are locally small, this means that D(F,) and C(,G) are naturally isomorphic functors Cop×DSet.)

We say F is left adjoint to G, or G is right adjoint to F, and we write (FG).