Extending conceptual completeness via virtual ultracategories
Category Theory
2025-07-01 v1 Logic
Abstract
We introduce the notion of virtual ultracategory. From a topological point of view, this notion can be seen as a categorification of relational -algebras. From a categorical point of view, virtual ultracategories generalize ultracategories in the same way that multicategories generalize monoidal categories. From a logical point of view, whereas the points of a coherent topos form an ultracategory, the points of an arbitrary topos form a virtual ultracategory. We then extend Makkai--Lurie's conceptual completeness: a topos with enough points can be reconstructed from its virtual ultracategory of points.
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@article{arxiv.2506.23935,
title = {Extending conceptual completeness via virtual ultracategories},
author = {Gabriel Saadia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23935},
year = {2025}
}
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