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

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

    is given by

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

    for each $\webleft [\webleft (x_{a}\webright )_{a\in A}\webright ]\in A\pitchfork X$.


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