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Category of ordinals in reverse order

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Regard the proper class of all ordinals as a poset category with α→β when α≥β in the usual order. It is locally small and complete: the product of any set-indexed family is its ordinary supremum, and equalizers are automatic in a poset. It has no initial object because there is no largest ordinal. Consequently every representable functor from it to sets preserves all small limits but has no left adjoint, since a left adjoint would have to send the empty set to an initial object.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2006 / iii / Paper 24 / 1 / ii / Solution
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