Questions tagged [limits-and-colimits]
For questions on limits and colimts in the sense of category theory, and related notions.
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Cocompletion without cocontinuous functors
The forgetful functor from the 2-category $\mathsf{Cats}^{\mathrm{loc.small}}_{\mathrm{cocomp}}$ of locally small cocomplete categories and cocontinuous functors to the 2-category $\mathsf{Cats}^{\...
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Compact objects in categories of categories
I am interested in the compact objects of various categories of categories.
For example, $Cat^{small}$ is presentable and has compact objects that are retracts of finite colimits of $\Delta^n$, the $n$...
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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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Unexpected interaction between limits and colimits
Let $D$ be a limit-complete category. My vague question is: given two diagrams in $D$, what comparisons between them induce a morphism of their limits? I'm especially interested in the case that the ...
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Extremally disconnected sets as building blocks for compact Hausdorff spaces
Is every compact Hausdorff space the filtered colimit of compact extremally disconnected spaces?
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Does coproduct preserve cohomology in differential graded algebra category
Consider two cochain DGA (differential graded algebras) named $A$ and $B$. By "coproduct" of two DGA I mean the category theory coproduct, not the coalgebra coproduct. It is defined in "...
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Directed colimit of fully faithful functors
Suppose that for every $n\in\mathbb{N}$ we have a category $\mathcal{C}_n$ and a fully faithful functor $F_n:\mathcal{C}_n\hookrightarrow \mathcal{C}_{n+1}$. My question is whether fully faithful ...
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Categories that admit all finite products but not all finite coproducts
What are examples for categories that admit all finite products but not all finite coproducts?
(See also this question: Categories that admit all products but not all coproducts .)
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Sequential colimit of iterated quotients of Cauchy sequences
We work in constructive mathematics.
The sets and functions in the foundations form a Grothendieck topos, which means that all colimits exist, and in particular, that all sequential colimits exist. ...
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Limits in category theory and analysis
Is it possible to regard limits in analysis (say, of real sequences or more generally nets in topological spaces) as limits in category theory? Is there some formal connection?
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Co/limits and 2-co/limits of categories in the $\infty$- and $(\infty,2)$-category of $\infty$-categories
Recently, in a conversation with Gabriel, the following question came up:
Question. Do co/limits of categories taken in the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-categories agree with the usual co/limits ...
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Creating an inverse system which "stratifies density"
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Let $X'$ be a dense subset of an infinite-dimensional Fréchet space $X$ and suppose that $(X_n')_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ is a nested sequence of non-empty subsets of $X'$ satisfying
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Weighted limits and co-Yoneda
Is there a good reference that discusses weighted limits through the lens of the co-Yoneda embedding?
Recall that the limit of a functor $F:\mathcal{C}\to{\bf Set}$ is canonically given by the set $${...
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Pointwise Kan extensions VS weighted limits
$\newcommand{\Dist}{\operatorname{Dist}} \newcommand{\Ran}{\operatorname{Ran}} \newcommand{\Lim}{\operatorname{Lim}}$
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Given a pointwise kan extension, how can we go from
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Colimits from van Kampen cocones
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category with pullbacks, $\mathcal{J}$ a small category, $F : \mathcal{J} \to \mathcal{C}$ a diagram and $\kappa : F \Rightarrow \Delta X$ a cocone in $\mathcal{C}$. Let $\...
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Kernels and cokernels in a quotient of an abelian category
I am trying to understand the construction of the quotient of an abelian category called the Serre quotient or Gabriel quotient. From the description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Commuting homotopy colimits and arbitrary products in spaces
Let $X : D \rightarrow Spc$ be a diagram with values in the $\infty$-category of spaces and $I$ some (discrete) set, not necessarily finite. ($D$ can be a 1-category if that makes statements easier, ...
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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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Algebraically-free monadicity theorem
The monadicity theorem characterises when a functor $u : \mathbf B \to \mathbf E$ is the forgetful functor from the category of algebras for some monad on $\mathbf E$ (up to an equivalence over $\...
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Compact objects in slice categories of finitely presentable categories
Given a locally finitely presentable category $\mathscr C$ and an object $X \in \mathscr C$, it is not so hard to show that a morphism $(X \to Y)$ is compact in $\mathscr C_{X/}$ if it can be obtained ...
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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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Does the 2-category of double categories and vertical transformations have flexible limits?
Consider the 2-category of pseudo-double categories (with the weak composition in the horizontal direction and the strict composition in the vertical direction), strong double functors, and vertical ...
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Comparing stabilization of stable category modulo injectives and a Verdier localization
Let $\mathcal A$ be an abelian category with enough injectives. Let $\mathcal I$ be the collection of injective objects. Let $\mathcal A/\mathcal I$ be the quotient category whose objects are same as ...
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Vanishing of self-hom in Spanier–Whitehead stabilization category
$\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}\DeclareMathOperator\SW{SW}$Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring. For $R$-modules $M,N$, let $\mathcal I_R(M,N)$ be the collection of all $f\in \text{Hom}_R(M,N)$ ...
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Homotopy colimit commutes with homotopy groups
I'm interested in something built upon the construction laid out in nlab article on Snaith's theorem
Let $(E, \mu, \iota)$ be a ring spectrum.
For $\beta \in \pi_n(E)$ an element of the $n$th stable ...
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How do these definitions of factorization algebra compare?
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Several sources define (homotopy) factorization algebras in a seemingly
different manner (I am looking at [CG], [Gi], and
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Reference for homotopy colimit = total complex
I'm looking for a reference for the following fact:
take a simplicial chain complex $ X:\Delta^{op}\to Ch_{\geq 0}(\mathcal A)$ for $\mathcal A$ a nice abelian category (say, cocomplete with enough ...
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Duality and compactness for pro vector spaces
I have a somewhat basic question which I haven't been able to piece together from the literature.
Background. We work over a field $\bf{k}$. Consider the category, $\bf{Pro}_{k}$, of pro- vector ...
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Does forgetting colimits preserve colimits?
For each regular cardinal $\kappa$ let $\operatorname{Cat}_{\kappa}$ be the $(2,1)$-category of small categories with $\kappa$-small colimits, and functors that preserve those colimits. For each pair ...
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Weakening of terminal object in a category
I’ve come across a category $\mathcal{C}$ recently with an object $T$ such that any other object $X$ has a map $f:X\rightarrow T$, and for any two maps $f,g:X\rightarrow T$, there exists a (not ...
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Adjoining a morphism to a finitely complete category
Let $\mathscr C$ be a finitely complete category. Let $x, y$ be objects of $\mathscr C$. We can describe the universal property of freely adjoining a morphism $x \to y$ to $\mathscr C$: it comprises a ...
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Surjection of a short exact sequence induced by spectral sequence (from paper of Schneider/Stuhler)
Let $K=\mathbb{Q}_p$ and $X$ a smooth separated rigid analytic variety over $K$ with coherent sheaf $\mathcal{F}$. Furthermore, $U \subset X$ is an open subvariety with admissible covering
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Inclusion of $1$-presheaves into $\infty$-presheaves preserves pushouts?
Let $\mathcal{R}$ be a $1$-category. Assume that one has a pushout of representable $1$-presheaves $\mathrm{y} A \cup_{\mathrm{y} B} \mathrm{y} C$ in $\mathsf{PSh}(\mathcal{R})$. Under which ...
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Why isn't pullback-stability defined for individual colimits but for colimits with the same shape?
Circumstances: I'm studying Grothendieck's Galois Theory and recently encountered a proposition that discussed the stability of coproducts under pullback. And I found the page pullback-stable colimit ...
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Algebras for products or limits of monads
If a category $C$ has limits of a certain type, then the category of monads on $C$ has the same type of limits, and these limits are computed "levelwise" (i.e. are preserved by the forgetful ...
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A right adjoint preserves Phi-colimits if and only if the left adjoint does what?
Let $\Phi$ be a class of categories (e.g. filtered categories), and consider an adjunction $L : \mathbf C \rightleftarrows \mathbf D : R$. A $\Phi$-colimit is a colimit whose diagram is in $\Phi$. We ...
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Has the "Lambek embedding" into the category of (co)product-preserving presheaves been studied very much?
The Lambek embedding is a particular embedding which is similar to the Yoneda embedding.
Suppose we have any category $C$. Recall that a presheaf on $C$ is defined as a contravariant functor from $C$ ...
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Is the category of small categories locally presentable?
I was wondering whether the various model structures on the category of small categories are combinatorial. I think that the ones I know are at least cofibrantly generated. In order to be ...
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Vanishing of higher limits
Let $I$ be a directed set and let $X_I$ be a corresponding inverse system of, say, (complex) vector spaces or abelian groups (in my case in general not finite-dimensional, resp. not finitely generated)...
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Shapes for category theory
Most texts on category theory define a (small) diagram in a category $\mathcal{A}$ as a functor $D : \mathcal{I} \to \mathcal{A}$ on a (small) category $\mathcal{I}$, called the shape of the diagram. ...
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What does it mean for a category to be generated under (some) colimits?
This is going to be a long post, so let me state my question first and then explain what I am interested in by way of examples.
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Is there any literature studying notions of generation under ...
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Weighted limits and Kan extension in Dist
(noting $\otimes$ for composition in distributors, $\phi_f : A \nrightarrow B = B(-,f=)$ and $\phi^f : B \nrightarrow A = B(f-,=)$ the embeddings of a functor $f:A\to B$ in $Dist$, and $Dist(A,B) = [B^...
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Does the forgetful functor from a pointed $\left(\infty, 1\right)$-category only create weakly contractible colimits?
Consider an $\left(\infty, 1\right)$-category $\mathcal{C}$ with a terminal object $1$. (I'm particularly interested in the case where $\mathcal{C}$ is a topos.) It is known that the forgetful functor ...
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When does base-change in topological spaces preserve quotient maps?
The question when $(-) \times X$ preserves colimits in topological spaces is well-studied. Since it always preserves arbitrary coproducts (disjoint unions), one only has to show when it preserves ...
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Homotopy groups of categories of elements as higher colimits
Given a diagram of sets $D\colon\mathcal{C}\to\mathsf{Set}$, we have a bijection (Proof)
$$\operatorname{colim}(D) \cong \pi_0 (\textstyle\int_\mathcal{C}D).$$
Is there any known application or ...
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Is totality a (large) cocompleteness condition?
A locally small category $A$ is called total if its Yoneda embedding $A \to [A^\circ, \mathbf{Set}]$ has a left adjoint. Such categories are necessarily small-cocomplete (since the presheaf category ...
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Initial cones, terminal cocones
We're all familiar with terminal cones/initial cocones in the form of limits/colimits.
What about initial cones and terminal cocones?
While writing an answer to a related question the concept ...
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Non-cofiltered derived limits
As far as I know, the inverse limit and its derived functors can be defined even in case we are dealing with a functor $F: I \to A$ from a category $I$ that is not cofiltered. I would content myself ...
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Which Ends preserve filtered colimits?
Can we characterize entirely for which categories $C$ the end on $C$ preserves filtered colimits, in a sense that the natural map
$$ \operatorname*{colim}_{i \in I} \int_{x \in C} A_i (x,x) \to \int_{...
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Does the category of locally compact Hausdorff spaces with proper maps have products?
nlab presents a proof that the category of locally compact Hausdorff spaces does not admit infinite products in general. In particular it shows that there is no infinite product of $\mathbb{R}$, since ...
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