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Add accessible categories and related properties#97

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@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon commented Apr 16, 2026

ℹ️ This is a rewrite of #59 by @ykawase5048 with a clean commit history, closer to the main branch and ready to be merged. See there for details what this PR is about and the discussions around it.

I have added "accessble" and several related properties:

  • (basic): accessible, ℵ₁-accessible, finitely accessible
  • (dual): coaccessible, locally copresentable
  • (related to sifted colimits): generalized variety, multialgebraic
  • (accessible with some limit): locally multipresentable, locally finitely multipresentable, locally polypresentable
  • (multilimits): multilimits, multiterminal object, multicolimits, multiinitial object
  • (size): countable, essentially countable

Follow Up: #91

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Thanks for rewriting. This looks good!

@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon changed the title Add accessible categories - Rewrite Add accessible categories and related properties Apr 17, 2026
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the add-accessible-rewrite branch from 6aac068 to af4592e Compare April 17, 2026 09:00
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@ykawase5048 🙏🏻

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ScriptRaccoon commented Apr 20, 2026

@ykawase5048 I was just checking if a certain category has multi-colimits and stumbled about a detail, maybe you can help.

At some point in this PR we said that a multi-colimit is a multi-initial object in the category of cocones. This must be a set of cocones, right?

Does a large discrete category have a multi-initial object?

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ykawase5048 commented Apr 20, 2026

At some point in this PR we said that a multi-colimit is a multi-initial object in the category of cocones. This must be a set of cocones, right?

Does a large discrete category have a multi-initial object?

Yes, multi-colimits must be indexed by a (cardinally) small collection, hence non-small discrete categories never have multi-initial objects.

Remark: multi-colimits of shape $\mathcal{S}$ can be regarded as a relative left adjoint of the diagonal functor $\mathcal{C} \to \mathcal{C}^\mathcal{S}$ with respect to the coproduct-cocompletion $\mathcal{C}\hookrightarrow \mathrm{Fam}(\mathcal{C})$.

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ykawase5048 commented Apr 20, 2026

Then, the current description of multi-initial objects lacks the smallness condition on the collection of connected components. Sorry, this is my bad.

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ScriptRaccoon commented Apr 20, 2026

I see. Can you please make a small PR with the fix? I think the implications are not affected?

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ykawase5048 commented Apr 20, 2026

Please find #118 well. I believe this change doesn't affect any implications.

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