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Original reference for categories of presheaves as free cocompletions of small categories
It is well known that, for a small category $\mathbf A$, the category $\widehat{\mathbf A} = [\mathbf A^\circ, \mathbf{Set}]$ of presheaves on $\mathbf A$ together with the Yoneda embedding $\mathbf A ...
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Given a small category with some colimits, can the rest of the colimits be added?
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a small category with some ( maybe no) colimits. What I would like to be able to do is add the rest of the colimits in a universal way. The Yoneda lemma will not work, since this ...
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Yoneda embedding and Horn sentences
The following is taken from Borceux and Bourn's Mal'cev, Protomodular, Homological, and Semi-Abelian Categories.
Metatheorem 0.1.3. Let $\mathcal P$ be a statement of the form $\varphi\implies \psi$, ...
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When do Kan extensions preserve colimits?
Assume that we have a pair of functors $Y:A \to B$ and $F:A \to C$ where $A$ is an essentially small category, $B,C$ are cocomplete categories and $Y,F$ preserve colimits. Assume also that for some ...
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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 Cauchy completion the largest extension with the same free cocompletion?
EDIT Title has been edited.
Let $C$ be a category, and $$\hat{C} = [C^{op}, (Set)]$$ be its free cocompletion. Despite its name, the free cocompletion of free cocompletion is not equivalent to the ...
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Continuity of Kan extension along the Yoneda embedding
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $h_-: \mathcal{C} \to \mathrm{Set}^{\mathcal{C}^{op}}$ be the Yoneda embedding. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a cocomplete category and $F: \mathcal{C} \to \mathcal{A}$ a ...
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