equivalence of categories
English
Noun
equivalence of categories (plural equivalence of categoriess)
- (category theory) An adjunction whose unit and counit are both natural isomorphisms.
- ©2000, Karen E. Smith; Lauri Kahanpää; Pekka Kekäläinen; William Traves, S. Axler; F.W. Gehring; K.A. Ribet, editors, An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry (Universitext), New York: Springer, →ISBN, OCLC 643228412, §2.5, page 24:
- The defining feature of algebraic geometry is the remarkable fact that not only does the geometry determine the algebra, but conversely, the algebra determines the geometry. That is, given any finitely generated -algebra R without nilpotent elements, there exists an affine algebraic variety V, uniquely defined up to isomorphism, such that R is isomorphic to the coordinate ring of V. Moreover, any homomorphism between such -algebras uniquely defines a morphism of the corresponding varieties. In fancy language, there is an equivalence of categories between the category of affine algebraic varieties and finitely generated, reduced -algebras.
Hypernyms
- adjunction