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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 β\beta-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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36 pages

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