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- noun category theory Given category , a Yoneda embedding for this category is a
functor such that for any object A in , and for anymorphism in , where thenatural transformation η has components . Then . Otherwise, it is a functor such that and for any in , where η has components . Then .
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Named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda.
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