category of large vector spaces over a large field with a small basis
Recall from our foundations that we work with sets ("small sets") and collections ("large sets"). A large field is a collection equipped with a field structure. Concrete examples are and the field of nimbers . There is a well-behaved hypercategory of large vector spaces over , which are collections equipped with a suitable algebraic structure. (See the linked article on foundations for the definition of a hypercategory.) Since collections and sets behave mostly the same (both satisfy the ZFC-axioms), it has analogous properties to its small counterpart: it is a split abelian, finitary algebraic hypercategory, and every object is isomorphic to for a collection .
In this entry, we consider the full sub-hypercategory of consisting of the large vector spaces that are isomorphic to for a set . Equivalently, a small basis exists. The relationship between and is similar to that between and . However, is not self-dual, which breaks the analogy.
However, is not a category as defined in our foundations, because the totality of its objects is not a collection. Even the totality of trivial large vector spaces is not a collection, analogous to the fact that the collection of trivial vector spaces is not a set. However, the totality of objects of is in bijection with the collection of sets, so is equivalent (as a hypercategory) to a category. This category has sets as objects and (not necessarily finite) column-finite matrices over as morphisms. Formally, we need to work with this category to stay within our framework, but it is easier and more natural to work with instead, in particular when studying its properties. To decide all properties, we assume that is not bijective to a set.
This category does not appear in practice, but it provides an example of a Grothendieck abelian category that is not complete, which is impossible in the locally small case.
Satisfied Properties
Assigned properties
- is preadditive
- has coproducts
- has coequalizers
- has equalizers
- is normal
- is conormal
- is split abelian
- has a generator
- has a cogenerator
- has exact filtered colimits
- is well-powered
- has ℵ₁-cofiltered limits
Deduced properties
- has zero morphisms
- is abelian
- has coreflexive equalizers
- is Cauchy complete
- has filtered colimits
- is finitely complete
- has filtered-colimit-stable monomorphisms
- has cartesian filtered colimits
- has a generating set
- is inhabited
- is mono-regular
- is cocomplete
- has reflexive coequalizers
- has a cogenerating set
- is epi-regular
- has copowers
- has ℵ₂-small coproducts
- is additive
- has cokernels
- has kernels
- is regular
- is Grothendieck abelian
- has finite products
- has quotients of congruences
- is strongly connected
- has directed colimits
- has ℵ₁-filtered colimits
- is balanced
- is coregular
- has connected colimits
- is finitely cocomplete
- is multi-cocomplete
- has coquotients of cocongruences
- is cofiltered
- has countable coproducts
- has ℵ₂-small copowers
- is Malcev
- has biproducts
- has coequalizers of kernel pairs
- is well-copowered
- has effective congruences
- is semi-strongly connected
- has disjoint finite products
- is filtered
- is ℵ₁-filtered
- has sifted colimits
- has an extremal generator
- has an extremal generating set
- has binary products
- has a terminal object
- has finite powers
- is co-Malcev
- has finite coproducts
- has a multi-initial object
- has equalizers of cokernel pairs
- has effective cocongruences
- is cosifted
- has sequential colimits
- has an extremal cogenerator
- has an extremal cogenerating set
- has countable copowers
- has wide pushouts
- is unital
- has a natural numbers object
- is connected
- has a multi-terminal object
- is Barr-exact
- is sifted
- has binary powers
- has pullbacks
- has kernel pairs
- is counital
- is Barr-coexact
- has disjoint finite coproducts
- is pointed
- has binary coproducts
- has an initial object
- has finite copowers
- has pushouts
- has cokernel pairs
- has disjoint coproducts
- is ℵ₁-cofiltered
- has binary copowers
Unsatisfied Properties
Assigned properties
- is not skeletal
- does not have countable powers
Deduced properties*
- is not cartesian closed
- is not discrete
- does not have countable products
- does not have ℵ₂-small powers
- does not have sequential limits
- is not gaunt
- is not direct
- is not inverse
- is not self-dual
- is not locally cartesian closed
- is not trivial
- does not have directed limits
- is not a groupoid
- does not have ℵ₂-small products
- does not have powers
- is not an elementary topos
- is not countably codistributive
- is not countably coextensive
- does not have a parametrized natural numbers object
- is not thin
- is not core-connected
- is not essentially discrete
- does not have a strict initial object
- does not have products
- does not have a regular subobject classifier
- is not regular-subobject-trivial
- is not regular-quotient-trivial
- is not a Grothendieck topos
- is not a quasitopos
- is not infinitary codistributive
- is not infinitary coextensive
- does not have cofiltered limits
- does not have a strict terminal object
- does not have a regular quotient object classifier
- is not one-way
- is not countably distributive
- is not left cancellative
- is not complete
- is not distributive
- does not satisfy CIP
- is not extensive
- does not have wide pullbacks
- is not right cancellative
- does not have a subobject classifier
- is not subobject-trivial
- is not core-thin
- is not essentially finite
- is not cocartesian coclosed
- does not have disjoint products
- is not codistributive
- does not have exact cofiltered limits
- does not have cocartesian cofiltered limits
- does not have cofiltered-limit-stable epimorphisms
- does not satisfy CSP
- is not coextensive
- does not have cosifted limits
- does not have a quotient object classifier
- is not quotient-trivial
- is not locally finite
- is not essentially small
- is not essentially countable
- is not locally presentable
- is not locally poly-presentable
- is not multi-complete
- is not infinitary distributive
- is not countably extensive
- does not have connected limits
- is not small
- is not finite
- is not countable
- is not a pretopos
- is not total
- is not locally copresentable
- is not locally cocartesian coclosed
- is not cototal
- is not accessible
- is not locally ℵ₁-presentable
- is not locally essentially small
- is not locally multi-presentable
- is not locally finitely multi-presentable
- is not infinitary extensive
- is not coaccessible
- is not ℵ₁-accessible
- is not locally finitely presentable
- is not finitely accessible
- is not multi-algebraic
- is not locally small
- is not concretizable
- is not finitary algebraic
- is not a generalized variety
- is not one-sorted finitary algebraic
*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.
Unknown properties
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Special objects
- terminal object: trivial vector space
- initial object: trivial vector space
- products: direct products
- coproducts: direct sums
Special morphisms
- isomorphisms: bijective linear maps
- monomorphisms: injective linear maps
- epimorphisms: surjective linear maps
- regular monomorphisms: same as monomorphisms
- regular epimorphisms: same as epimorphisms