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A Finitary Adjoint Functor Theorem

Category Theory 2024-02-06 v5

Abstract

Graduated locally finitely presentable categories are introduced, examples include categories of sets, vector spaces, posets, presheaves and Boolean algebras. A finitary functor between graduated locally finitely presentable categories is proved to be a right adjoint if and only if it preserves countable limits. For endofunctors on vector spaces or pointed sets even countable products are sufficient. Surprisingly, for set functors there is a single exception of a (trivial) finitary functor preserving countable products but not countable limits.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14965,
  title  = {A Finitary Adjoint Functor Theorem},
  author = {Jirí Adámek and Lurdes Sousa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14965},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages

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