Essentially surjective functor
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In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a functor
is essentially surjective if each object of is isomorphic to an object of the form for some object of .
Any functor that is part of an equivalence of categories is essentially surjective. As a partial converse, any full and faithful functor that is essentially surjective is part of an equivalence of categories.[1]
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