exponential object

English
The exponential object ZY — which may be pronounced "Z by Y" — indexes a family of arrows from Y to Z in a universal way, which means that for any X-indexed family of arrows g from Y to Z, g must factor through eval by means of an unique other arrow which is the product of the transpose of g and the identity of Y.

Noun

exponential object (plural exponential objects)

  1. (category theory) An object which indexes a family of arrows between two given objects in a universal way, meaning that any other indexed family of arrows between the same given pair of objects must factor uniquely through this universally-indexed family of arrows.
    An exponential object generalizes its interpretation in category ; namely, that of as a function set or internal hom-set.
    The pair is the terminal object of the comma category . Therefore the exponential object is a kind of universal morphism.

Hypernyms
  • internal Hom
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