A farewell to Evelyn Nelson
J. Rutten proved, for accessible endofunctors of , the dual Birkhoff’s Variety Theorem: a collection of -coalgebras is presentable by coequations ( subobjects of cofree coalgebras) iff it is closed under quotients, subcoalgebras, and coproducts. This result is now proved to hold for all endofunctors of provided that coequations are generalized to mean subchains of the cofree-coalgebra chain. For the concept of coequation introduced by H. Porst and the author, which is a subobject of a member...
In the theory of accessible categories, pure subobjects, i.e. filtered colimits of split monomorphisms, play an important role. Here we investigate pure quotients, i.e., filtered colimits of split epimorphisms. For example, in abelian, finitely accessible categories, these are precisely the cokernels of pure subobjects, and pure subobjects are precisely the kernels of pure quotients.
A criterion for the existence of an initial completion of a concrete category universal w.r.tḟinite products and subobjects is presented. For metric spaces and uniformly continuous maps this completion is the category of uniform spaces.
For categories with equalizers the concepts ``accessible'' and ``axiomatizable'' are equivalent. This results is proved under (in fact, is equivalent to) the large-cardinal Vopěnka's principle.
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