Accessibility and presentability in 2-categories
Category Theory
2025-08-05 v6
Abstract
We outline a definition of accessible and presentable objects in a 2-category endowed with a "KZ context", that is to say a pair of lax-idempotent monads interacting in a prescribed way; this perspective suggests a unified treatment of many "Gabriel-Ulmer like" theorems, asserting how presentable objects arise as reflections of generating ones. We outline the notion of "(Gabriel-Ulmer) envelope" for a KZ context, sufficient to concoct Gabriel-Ulmer duality. We end the paper with a roundup of examples, involving classical (set-based and enriched), low dimensional category theory, and a perspective for future work, rooted in higher category theory and homotopy theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.08710,
title = {Accessibility and presentability in 2-categories},
author = {Ivan Di Liberti and Fosco Loregian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08710},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Final version, accepted for publication on JPAA