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Colimits of accessible categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2013

R. PARÉ
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4R2. e-mail: pare@mathstat.dal.ca
J. ROSICKÝ
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Masaryk University, Faculty of Sciences, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic e-mail: rosicky@math.muni.cz

Abstract

We show that any directed colimit of accessible categories and accessible full embeddings is accessible and, assuming the existence of arbitrarily large strongly compact cardinals, any directed colimit of accessible categories and accessible embeddings is accessible.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013 

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