Is there a characterisation of functors $F\colon \mathcal{C}\to \mathcal{D}$ satisfying the following condition:

  • For each $\mathcal{X}\in \text{Obj}\webleft (\mathsf{Cats}\webright )$, the postcomposition functor

    \[ F_{*}\colon \mathsf{Fun}\webleft (\mathcal{X},\mathcal{C}\webright )\to \mathsf{Fun}\webleft (\mathcal{X},\mathcal{D}\webright ) \]

    is conservative?

This question also appears as [MO 468125].


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