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For questions on limits and colimts in the sense of category theory, and related notions.

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Local finality condition (for re-indexing parameterized colimits)

I'm in need of a condition that is analogous to the "finality" condition in the following lemma: Lemma: A functor $F\colon A\to B$ is final if and only if for any functor $x\colon B\to Set$, the natu …
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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 c …
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Is the evaluation of polynomial functors appropriately continuous?

Ok, this follows trivially from the construction of limits in ${\bf Cat}$. Let $I\ $ be a small category, let $X\colon I\to{\bf Cat}\ $ denote a functor, and let $Y=\text{colim}_{i\in I}X_i\ $ be it …
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Is the evaluation of polynomial functors appropriately continuous?

I'd like a nice proof of the following fact. Let $C$ and $D$ be categories, and let $\mathbf{Cat}/(C\times D)$ be the usual (1-categorical) slice category whose objects are triples $(X,F\colon X\to C …
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