# nLab fully faithful morphism

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### Context

#### 2-category theory

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## Definition

Let $K$ be a 2-category.

A morphism $f:A\to B$ in $K$ is called (representably) fully-faithful (or sometimes just ff) if for all objects $X \in K$ , the functor

$K(X,A) \to K(X,B)$

It is said to be co-fully faithful or corepresentably fully faithful if for all objects $X \in K$ , the functor

$K(B,X) \to K(A,X)$

is a full and faithful functor.

## Variations

This is not always the “right” notion of fully-faithfulness in a 2-category. In particular, in enriched category theory this definition does not recapture the correct notion of enriched fully-faithfulness. It is possible, however, to characterize $V$-fully-faithful functors 2-categorically; see codiscrete cofibration. In general, fully faithful morphisms should be defined with respect to a proarrow equipment (or some other context for formal category theory): in particular, this recovers $V$-fully-faithfulness. A 1-cell $f : A \to B$ in a proarrow equipment is fully faithful if the unit of the adjunction $\eta \colon 1 \to f^* f_*$ is invertible.

## Examples

In the 2-category Cat the full and faithful morphisms are precisely the full and faithful functors; and the co-fully faithful morphisms are precisely the absolutely dense functors.

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