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Definable Categories

Category Theory 2016-12-13 v1

Abstract

We introduce the notion of a definable category--a category equivalent to a full subcategory of a locally finitely presentable category that is closed under products, directed colimits and pure subobjects. Definable subcategories are precisely the finite-injectivity classes. We prove a 22-duality between the 22-category of small exact categories and the 22-category of definable categories, and provide a new proof of its additive version. We further introduce a third vertex of the 22-category of regular toposes and show that the diagram of 22-(anti-)equivalences between three 22-categories commutes, the corresponding additive triangle is well-known.

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@article{arxiv.1612.03711,
  title  = {Definable Categories},
  author = {Amit Kuber and Jiří Rosický},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03711},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages

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