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accessible

Let $\kappa$ be a regular cardinal. A category is $\kappa$-accessible if it has $\kappa$-filtered colimits and there is a (small) set $G$ of $\kappa$-presentable objects such that every object is a $\kappa$-filtered colimit of objects in $G$. A category is accessible if it is $\kappa$-accessible for some regular cardinal $\kappa$.

• Dual property: coaccessible
• Related properties: finitely accessible, locally multi-presentable, locally poly-presentable, locally presentable, ℵ₁-accessible
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Relevant implications

• accessible andcomplete is equivalent to locally presentable
• accessible andpushouts implies well-copowered
• accessible andself-dual implies coaccessible
• accessible implies Cauchy complete
• accessible implies generating set
• accessible implies locally essentially small
• accessible implies well-powered
• Cauchy complete andessentially small implies accessible
• coaccessible andself-dual implies accessible
• locally multi-presentable is equivalent to accessible andconnected limits
• locally multi-presentable is equivalent to accessible andmulti-cocomplete
• locally poly-presentable is equivalent to accessible andwide pullbacks
• locally presentable is equivalent to accessible andcocomplete
• ℵ₁-accessible implies accessible

Examples

There are 63 categories with this property.

• category of abelian groups
• category of abelian sheaves
• category of algebras
• category of Banach spaces with linear contractions
• category of combinatorial species
• category of commutative algebras
• category of commutative monoids
• category of commutative rings
• category of countable groups
• category of countable sets
• category of fields
• category of finite abelian groups
• category of finite groups
• category of finite ordered sets
• category of finite sets
• category of finite sets and bijections
• category of finite sets and injections
• category of finite sets and surjections
• category of finitely generated abelian groups
• category of groups
• category of Jónsson-Tarski algebras
• category of left modules over a division ring
• category of left modules over a ring
• category of M-sets
• category of metric spaces with ∞ allowed
• category of monoids
• category of non-empty sets
• category of pairs of sets
• category of pointed sets
• category of posets
• category of prosets
• category of rings
• category of rngs
• category of semigroups
• category of sets
• category of sets with finite-to-one maps
• category of sheaves
• category of simplicial sets
• category of small categories
• category of smooth manifolds
• category of torsion abelian groups
• category of torsion-free abelian groups
• category of vector spaces
• delooping of a non-trivial finite group
• delooping of an infinite countable group
• delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
• discrete category on two objects
• empty category
• poset [0,1]
• poset of extended natural numbers
• poset of natural numbers
• proset of integers w.r.t. divisibility
• simplex category
• trivial category
• walking commutative square
• walking composable pair
• walking coreflexive pair
• walking fork
• walking isomorphism
• walking morphism
• walking parallel pair
• walking span
• walking splitting

Counterexamples

There are 13 categories without this property.

• category of compact Hausdorff spaces
• category of Hausdorff spaces
• category of locally ringed spaces
• category of pointed topological spaces
• category of schemes
• category of sets and relations
• category of topological spaces
• category of Z-functors
• delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
• dual of the category of sets
• dual of the category of topological spaces
• poset of ordinal numbers
• walking idempotent

Undecidable categories

There is 1 category for which it cannot be decided if this property is satisfied or not.

• category of free abelian groups

Unknown

There are 4 categories for which the database has no information on whether they satisfy this property. Please help us fill in the gaps by contributing to this project.

• category of measurable spaces
• category of metric spaces with continuous maps
• category of metric spaces with non-expansive maps
• category of pseudo-metric spaces with non-expansive maps