Structure

cototal

A locally small category C\C is called cototal if it satisfies one of the following equivalent conditions:
  1. The contravariant Yoneda embedding y:Cop→[C,Set]y : \C^{\op} \to [\C, \Set] has a left adjoint.
  2. Every discrete opfibration D:I→CD : \I \to \C (with I\I not necessarily essentially small) with the property that each fiber D∗({X})={i∈Ob⁡(I):Di=X}D^*(\{X\}) = \{i \in \Ob(\I) : D_i = X\} is essentially small (bijective to a set), has a limit in C\C.
  3. Let D:I→CD : \I \to \C be a diagram (with I\I not necessarily essentially small) such that for each object XX of C\C, the collection π0(D↓X)\pi_0(D \downarrow X) of connected components of the comma category D↓XD \downarrow X is essentially small. Then DD has a limit in C\C.
The equivalence is proven in Kelly, Thm. 5.2 and 5.5. In that paper, Thm. 5.6 also proves that every cototal category is hypercocomplete, meaning that every diagram D:I→CD : \I \to \C with the property that for every object XX of C\C the collection of cocones Hom⁡(D,Δ(X))\Hom(D,\Delta(X)) is essentially small, has a colimit.
A general category is called cototal if it is equivalent to a locally small category which is cototal.

Relevant implications

Examples

There are 49 categories with this property.

Counterexamples

There are 83 categories without this property.

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