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

    In particular, given pointed maps

    \begin{align*} f & \colon \webleft (X,x_{0}\webright ) \to \webleft (A,a_{0}\webright ),\\ g & \colon \webleft (Y,y_{0}\webright ) \to \webleft (B,b_{0}\webright ), \end{align*}

    the induced map

    \[ f\lhd g\colon X\lhd Y\to A\lhd B \]

    is given by

    \[ \webleft [f\lhd g\webright ]\webleft (x\lhd y\webright )\mathrel {\smash {\overset {\mathclap {\scriptscriptstyle \text{def}}}=}}f\webleft (x\webright )\lhd g\webleft (y\webright ) \]

    for each $x\lhd y\in X\lhd Y$.


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