Australian Category Seminar

Introduction to accessible categories

Robert Paré·5 March 1986

Some basic facts on κ\kappa-filtered colimits were reviewed. Right κ\kappa-filtered profunctors were introduced, and a number of their properties given. A κ\kappa-accessible category was defined to be a category for which there existed a small set of κ\kappa-presentable objects of which every object was a κ\kappa-filtered colimit.

Homework: show that every small category with split idempotents is κ\kappa-accessible for some κ\kappa.

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