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I added to the “abstract nonsense” section in free monoid a helpful general observation on how to construct free monoids. “Adjoint functor theorem” is overkill for free monoids over .
ummm, shouldn’t
Then a left adjoint to the forgetful functor exists, taking an object to
which thereby becomes the free monoid on .
really be
Then a left adjoint to the forgetful functor exists, taking to
which thereby becomes the free monoid on .
an object of is not involved.
ummm… no. There was one typo in what I wrote: that should have been a lower-case before the period. I’ll go fix that. (Edit: done.)
The adjoint functor theorem is useful to do the proofs. (None of the constructions currently come with proofs that they are what we claim they are.)
Should I include a proof of the theorem I quoted? (Hm, not sure I really want to put myself out there, but I’ll ask anyway.)
I don’t think that it’s necessary now. It might be better to leave the proofs for somebody who doesn’t find the result obvious and wants to write down what they think of. (That’s usually what I do … not that I always find proofs obvious when I leave them out if I’m quoting the results from elsewhere.)
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