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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 23 4 e Solution by
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By the canonical colimit presentation of a presheaf, writewith structure maps . Since is a 0-presentable object, the canonical mapis bijective. Every element of a set-valued colimit has a representative in some component. In particular is the image of a transformation for some , soThus is a retract of . The representable retract criterion from part (c), using the assumed equalisers in , now gives is representable. Only existence of the representative of is needed; no stronger uniqueness-of-factorization assertion about individual colimit injections has been assumed.
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