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The ABC of categories: ABstract vs Concrete
From Wikipedia:
A concrete category is a category that is equipped
with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
This functor makes it
possible to think of the obj …
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Abstract classes of anodyne maps (relative to an interval) in a presheaf category are stable under smash products with monomorphisms?
Let $A$ be a small category, and let $X:=Psh(A)$ denote the category of presheaves on $A$. It is a theorem that for any such category $X$, there exists a small set $M$ of monomorp …
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Are strict pushout squares in Cat exact squares?
Let $C,C',D\in \operatorname{Cat}$, and consider the following strict pushout square
$$\begin{matrix}
C&\overset{f}{\to} &D^{op}\\
\downarrow^\pi&\swarrow&\downarr …
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The single-plus construction is not the left adjoint of the inclusion of separated presheaves?
Convention:
Before I start, please note that it is not going to be sufficient to assume that the topology is subcanonical or that the site $C$ has finite limits, since the applica …

