• Functoriality. The assignments $A,\webleft (X,x_{0}\webright ),\webleft (A,\webleft (X,x_{0}\webright )\webright )$ define functors
    \begin{gather*} \begin{aligned} A\odot - & \colon \mathsf{Sets}_{*} \to \mathsf{Sets}_{*},\\ -\odot X & \colon \mathsf{Sets}\to \mathsf{Sets}_{*}, \end{aligned}\\ -_{1}\odot -_{2} \colon \mathsf{Sets}\times \mathsf{Sets}_{*} \to \mathsf{Sets}_{*}. \end{gather*}

    In particular, given:

    • A map of sets $f\colon A\to B$;
    • A pointed map $\phi \colon \webleft (X,x_{0}\webright )\to \webleft (Y,y_{0}\webright )$;
    the induced map

    \[ f\odot \phi \colon A\odot X\to B\odot Y \]

    is given by

    \[ \webleft [f\odot \phi \webright ]\webleft (a\odot x\webright )\mathrel {\smash {\overset {\mathclap {\scriptscriptstyle \text{def}}}=}}f\webleft (a\webright )\odot \phi \webleft (x\webright ) \]

    for each $a\odot x\in A\odot X$.


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