Kan Extensions
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On page 248 of Categories for the Working Mathematician[1], Saunders Mac Lane stated:
The notion of Kan extensions subsumes all the other fundamental concepts of category theory.
Kan Extensions are partial colimits
Paolo Perrone has a few talks on explaining Kan Extensions as partial colimits[2][3][4].
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A Kan extension is a mathematical object[5] that can be used to represent concepts or ideas.
Left and Right Kan Extensions
There are two kinds of Kan Extensions, left and right. They may be compared to the notion of horizontal and vertical composition in Category Theory.
Left and Right Adjoint
Left and Right Kan Extensions can be thought of as Left and Right Adjoint Functors when the target is mapped by an Identity Functor.
List of Videos
- Kan Lifts and Kan Extensions, Part 1
- Kan Extensions and Kan Lifts, Part 2
- Kan Extensions by MathProofsable
- Category Theory For Beginners: Kan Extensions
References
- ↑ Mac Lane, Saunders (1998). Categories for the Working Mathematician. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. 5 (2nd ed.). local page: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-98403-8. Zbl 0906.18001. , 248
- ↑ {{:Video/Kan extensions are partial colimits, Paolo Perrone, 11/02/2021
- ↑ Perrone, Paolo (Feb 28, 2022). Perrone - Kan extensions are partial colimits. local page: Category Theory CT20->21.
- ↑ Perrone, Paolo (Jun 12, 2020). Paolo Perrone: Kan extensions are partial colimits. local page: Topos Institute.
- ↑ Lehner, Marina (2014). "All Concepts are Kan Extensions":Kan Extensions as the Most Universal of the Universal Constructions (PDF) (Bachelor). local page: Harvard College. Retrieved June 28, 2021.