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exact filtered colimits

In a category $\mathcal{C}$, which we assume to have filtered colimits and finite limits, we say that filtered colimits are exact if for every finite category $\mathcal{I}$ the functor $\lim : [\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{C}] \to \mathcal{C}$ preserves filtered colimits. Equivalently, for every diagram $X : \mathcal{I} \times \mathcal{J} \to \mathcal{C}$, where $\mathcal{I}$ is finite and $\mathcal{J}$ is filtered, the canonical morphism $\mathrm{colim}_{j} \lim_{i} X(i,j) \to \lim_{i} \mathrm{colim}_j X(i,j)$ is an isomorphism.

• Related properties: filtered colimits, finitely complete
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Relevant implications

• coproducts and  distributive and  exact filtered colimits implies   infinitary distributive
• exact filtered colimits implies   filtered colimits and  finitely complete
• Grothendieck abelian is equivalent to   abelian and  coproducts and  exact filtered colimits and  generator
• locally finitely presentable implies   exact filtered colimits

Examples

There are 19 categories with this property.

• category of abelian groups
• category of commutative rings
• category of groups
• category of left R-modules
• category of M-sets
• category of monoids
• category of pointed sets
• category of posets
• category of rings
• category of rngs
• category of sets
• category of simplicial sets
• category of small categories
• category of vector spaces
• category of Z-functors
• partial order of extended natural numbers
• trivial category
• walking isomorphism
• walking morphism

Counterexamples

There are 27 categories without this property.

• category of Banach spaces with linear contractions
• category of combinatorial species
• category of fields
• category of finite abelian groups
• category of finite orders
• 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 free abelian groups
• category of metric spaces with ∞ allowed
• category of metric spaces with non-expansive maps
• category of non-empty sets
• category of sets and relations
• category of smooth manifolds
• category of topological spaces
• delooping of a non-trivial finite group
• delooping of an infinite group
• delooping of the additive monoid of natural numbers
• delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers
• discrete category on two objects
• empty category
• partial order of natural numbers
• partial order of ordinal numbers
• preorder of integers w.r.t. divisiblity
• walking parallel pair of morphisms

Unknown

There are 5 categories for which the database has no information on whether they satisfy this property.

• category of locally ringed spaces
• category of measurable spaces
• category of metric spaces with continuous maps
• category of schemes
• partial order [0,1]