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A simple criterion for a functor to be finitary is presented: we call $F$ finitely bounded if for all objects $X$ every finitely generated subobject of $FX$ factorizes through the $F$-image of a finitely generated subobject of $X$. This is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lurdes Sousa , Thorsten Wißmann

In this work, we investigate an effective method for showing that functors between categories are left adjoints. The method applies to a large class of categories, namely locally finitely presentable categories, which are ubiquitous in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Simon Forest

Adjoint functor theorems give necessary and sufficient conditions for a functor to admit an adjoint. In this paper we prove general adjoint functor theorems for functors between $\infty$-categories. One of our main results is an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Hoang Kim Nguyen , George Raptis , Christoph Schrade

We give conditions on a finitary endofunctor of a finitely accessible category to admit a final coalgebra. Our conditions always apply to the case of a finitary endofunctor of a locally finitely presentable (l.f.p.) category and they bring…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Panagis Karazeris , Apostolos Matzaris , Jiri Velebil

For topological spaces $X$ and $Y$, a (not necessarily continuous) function $f:X \rightarrow Y$ naturally induces a functor from the category of closed subsets of $X$ (with morphisms given by inclusions) to the category of closed subsets of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Edward S. Letzter

We prove that every finitary polynomial endofunctor of a category $C$ has a final coalgebra if $C$ is locally Cartesian closed, has finite disjoint coproducts and a natural number object. More generally, we prove that the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Santocanale

We consider the equivalence of Lawvere theories and finitary monads on Set from the perspective of Endf(Set)-enriched category theory, where Endf(Set) is the category of finitary endofunctors of Set. We identify finitary monads with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Richard Garner

We prove an adjoint functor theorem in the setting of categories enriched in a monoidal model category $\mathcal V$ admitting certain limits. When $\mathcal V$ is equipped with the trivial model structure this recaptures the enriched…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-13 John Bourke , Stephen Lack , Lukáš Vokřínek

For finitary regular monads T on locally finitely presentable categories we characterize the finitely presentable objects in the category of T-algebras in the style known from general algebra: they are precisely the algebras presentable by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lurdes Sousa , Thorsten Wißmann

We show how the relatively initial or relatively terminal fixed points for a well-behaved functor $F$ form a pair of adjoint functors between $F$-coalgebras and $F$-algebras. We use the language of locally presentable categories to find…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ezra Schoen , Jade Master , Clemens Kupke

We are checking the closed categories beginning with the category of sets and ending with the category of categories. The novelty is a generalizing the notion of adjoint functors to the joint pair of functors in the category of directed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Gintaras Valiukevičius

We define the notion of a $\lambda$-definable category, a generalisation of the notion of definable category from the model theory of modules. Let ${\cal C}$ be a $\lambda$-accessible additive category. We characterise the additive functors…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Samuel Dean

We define the notion of an indexed profunctor over a 2-category, and use it to develop an abstract theory of limits. The theory subsumes (conical) limits, weighted limits, ends and Kan extensions. Results include an abstract version of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Sori Lee

We systematically develop the theory of definable functors between compactly generated triangulated categories. Such functors preserve pure triangles, pure injective objects, and definable subcategories, and as such appear in a wide range…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Isaac Bird , Jordan Williamson

We provide a construction of the fixed points of functors which may not be inital algebras or final coalgebras. For an endofunctor F, this fixed point construction may be expressed as a pair of adjoint functors between F-coalgebras and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Ezra Schoen , Jade Master , Clemens Kupke

In recent work of Lindenhovius and Zamdzhiev, it was established that the category of complete operator spaces, with completely contractive linear maps as morphisms, is locally countably presentable. In this work, we extend their conclusion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Alexandru Chirvasitu , Ian Thompson

Let E be a (right) Hilbert C*-module over a C*-algebra A. If E is equipped with a left action of a second C*-algebra B, then tensor product with E gives rise to a functor from the category of Hilbert B-modules to the category of Hilbert…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Pierre Clare , Tyrone Crisp , Nigel Higson

We provide a criterion for the existence of right approximations in cocomplete additive categories; it is a straightforward generalisation of a result due to El Bashir. This criterion is used to construct adjoint functors in homotopy…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-24 Henning Krause

We introduce the notion of residual finiteness for categories. In analogy with the group-theoretic setting, we prove that free categories and finitely generated subcategories of finite-dimensional vector spaces are residually finite.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Clara Loeh

We present a collection of results that imply that an endofunctor on a category has a terminal object obtainable as a countable limit of its terminal-coalgebra chain. This holds for finitary endofunctors preserving nonempty binary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lawrence S. Moss
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