What are sifted colimits?
Let be a completely regular Hausdorff space and, as usual, let denote the ring of real-valued continuous functions on . The lattice of -ideals of has been shown by Martínez and Zenk (2005) to be a frame. We show that the spectrum of this lattice is (homeomorphic to) precisely when is a -space. This we actually show to be true not only in spaces, but in locales as well. Recall that an ideal of a commutative ring is called a -ideal if whenever two elements have the same annihilator and...
For an arbitrary category, we consider the least class of functors containing the projections and closed under finite products, finite coproducts, parameterized initial algebras and parameterized final coalgebras, i.e. the class of functors that are definable by -terms. We call the category -bicomplete if every -term defines a functor. We provide concrete examples of such categories and explicitly characterize this class of functors for the category of sets and functions. This goal is achieved...
For an arbitrary category, we consider the least class of functors containing the projections and closed under finite products, finite coproducts, parameterized initial algebras and parameterized final coalgebras, i.e. the class of functors that are definable by μ-terms. We call the category μ-bicomplete if every μ-term defines a functor. We provide concrete examples of such categories and explicitly characterize this class of functors for the category of sets and functions. This goal is achieved...