In mathematics, a pseudofunctor F is a mapping between 2-categories, or from a category to a 2-category, that is just like a functor except that and do not hold as exact equalities but only up to coherent isomorphisms.
The Grothendieck construction associates to a pseudofunctor a fibered category.
See also
- Lax functor
- Prestack (an example of pseudofunctor)
- Fibered category
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