14.2.1 Corepresentably Faithful Morphisms

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a bicategory.

A $1$-morphism $f\colon A\to B$ of $\mathcal{C}$ is corepresentably faithful if, for each $X\in \operatorname {\mathrm{Obj}}(\mathcal{C})$, the functor

\[ f^{*}\colon \mathsf{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(B,X)\to \mathsf{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,X) \]

given by precomposition by $f$ is faithful.

In detail, $f$ is corepresentably faithful if, for all diagrams in $\mathcal{C}$ of the form

if we have

\[ \alpha \mathbin {\star }\operatorname {\mathrm{id}}_{f}=\beta \mathbin {\star }\operatorname {\mathrm{id}}_{f}, \]

then $\alpha =\beta $.

Here are some examples of corepresentably faithful morphisms.

  1. 1.

    Corepresentably Faithful Morphisms in $\mathsf{Cats}_{\mathsf{2}}$. The corepresentably faithful morphisms in $\mathsf{Cats}_{\mathsf{2}}$ are characterised in Chapter 11: Categories, Item 5 of Proposition 11.6.1.1.2.

  2. 2.

    Corepresentably Faithful Morphisms in $\boldsymbol {\mathsf{Rel}}$. Every morphism of $\boldsymbol {\mathsf{Rel}}$ is corepresentably faithful; see Chapter 8: Relations, Unresolved reference of Unresolved reference.


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