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Free cocompletion of a 2-category under pseudo colimits, lax colimits, and colax colimits

Let $\mathscr K$ be a small 2-category. It follows from $\mathrm{Cat}$-enriched category theory that the free cocompletion of $\mathscr K$ under strict 2-colimits of 2-functors is given by the 2-...
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Large V-categories admitting the construction of V-presheaves

By a result of Foltz, and Freyd and Street, a category $C$ is essentially small (i.e. equivalent to a small category) if and only if both $C$ and $[C^{\text{op}}, \mathrm{Set}]$ are locally small. I ...
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Day convolution and sheafification

$\DeclareMathOperator\Psh{Psh}\DeclareMathOperator\Sh{Sh}\newcommand\copower{\mathrm{copower}}$I was looking through Bodil Biering's thesis On the Logic of Bunched Implications - and its relation to ...
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Can every weighted colimit in a $\mathbf{Pos}$-enriched category be rephrased as a conical colimit?

For ordinary category theory, we have the following fact. A weighted colimit of a functor can always be equivalently expressed as a colimit of a different functor. Specifically, the weighted colimit ...
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Cocompleteness of enriched categories of algebras

A useful result due to Linton is that for a cocomplete category $C$ and monad $T$ on $C$, if the category of algebras $C^T$ admits reflexive coequalisers, then it is cocomplete (see here for a sketch ...
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$V$-cat and $V$-graph: coequalizers in the category of enriched functors

This question is regarding the 1974 JPAA paper $V$-cat and $V$-graph by Harvey Wolff. To be precise, I don't understand a certain step in the proof of Corollary 2.9, which (the corollary) is crucial ...
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Are weighted limits terminal in a category of cones?

Consider a Benabou-cosmos $(\mathcal{V},\otimes,J)$, $\mathcal{V}$-categories $\mathcal{I},\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{V}$-functors $\mathcal{W}:\mathcal{I} \rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{D}:\...
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Density with respect to a family of diagrams, versus a class of weights

In Theorem 5.19 of Kelly's Basic Concepts of Enriched Category Theory, it is proven that a fully faithful functor $K \colon \mathcal A \to \mathcal C$ is dense if and only if $\mathcal C$ is the ...
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Explicit description of a pullback of $(2,1)$-categories

In the 1-category of 2-categories, with objects being categories enriched over Cat, and morphisms being 2-functors, is there an explicit way to describe a pullback of two functors $G:E\to D$ and $F:C\...
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Weighted Co/ends?

Recall: Limits Recall that the limit of a functor $D\colon\mathcal{I}\to\mathcal{C}$ is, if it exists, the pair $(\mathrm{lim}(D),\pi)$ with $\lim(D)$ an object of $\mathcal{C}$, and $\pi\colon\...
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Classification of absolute 2-limits?

Let $\mathcal V$ be a good enriching category. Recall that an enriched limit weight $\phi: D \to \mathcal V$ is called absolute if $\phi$-weighted limits are preserved by any $\mathcal V$-enriched ...
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Is there such a thing as a weighted Kan extension?

The title pretty much sums it up. More in detail. Let $C$, $D$ and $E$ be categories, let $F:C\to D$ and $G:C\to E$ be functors, and let $P:C^{op}\to \mathrm{Set}$ be a presheaf. The colimit of $F$ ...
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Monoidal functors $\mathcal C \to [\mathcal D,\mathcal V]$ are monoidal functors $\mathcal C \otimes \mathcal D \to \mathcal V$?

It is well known (e.g., Reference for "lax monoidal functors" = "monoids under Day convolution" ) that if $\mathcal C$ is a monoidal $\mathcal V$-enriched category, then a monoid ...
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Are sifted (2,1)-colimits of fully faithful functors again fully faithful? (And a de-categorified variant)

1) Suppose that I have a sifted diagram of categories $\mathcal{C}_i$, another of the same shape $\mathcal{D}_i$, and that I have a system $F_i:\mathcal{C}_i\to\mathcal{D}_i$ commuting with the ...
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Ends and coends – analogues for higher arity – Horn Filling

Consider the setting of categories enriched over a suitable monoidal category $\mathbb V$. We define $$\mathrm{Dist}(X,Y):=\mathbb V−\mathrm{Cat}(X^ \mathrm{op}⊗Y,\mathbb V).$$ Recall the definition ...
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how many ways can an algebra be a weighted colimit of free algebras?

For a given weight $W : \mathcal{S}^{op} \to \mathcal{V}$ and diagram $D : \mathcal{S} \to \mathcal{A}$, the weighted colimit is an object $W \cdot D$ together with an isomorphism $$\mathcal{A}(W\cdot ...
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