Finite-limit-preserving set-valued functor 2026-10-06
A functor is finite-limit-preserving if it carries each finite limit cone to a limiting cone. When is a small category with finite limits, this is equivalent to being a filtered colimit in a category of covariant representable functors, and to the opposite of its category of elements being a filtered category. It is also equivalent to every comma category having finite limits, for all sets .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 119 2 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
By the canonical colimit presentation of a covariant set-valued functor established in the first part,Each vertex is a representable functor. Under condition the indexing category of elements, with its arrows reversed, is a filtered category, so this is a filtered colimit in a category. Therefore , with the requested diagram itself providing the filtered presentation.