Definition 3.1 (Adjunction, D. Kan 1958).
Let
and
be categories. An adjunction between
and
consists of functors
and
together with, for each
and ,
a bijection between morphisms
in
and morphisms
in ,
which is natural in
and .
(If
and
are locally small, this means that
and
are naturally isomorphic functors .)
We say
is left adjoint to ,
or
is right adjoint to ,
and we write .