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@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon commented May 14, 2026

This PR adds two properties:

  • ℵ₁-filtered colimits
  • ℵ₁-filtered

As for ℵ₁-filtered, all categories have been decided.

To decide ℵ₁-filtered colimits for various categories, and also decide ℵ₁-accessibility for several categories (which is still open for many categories), the following theorem has been added and proven (which is very similar to other results, see its proof for details):

Theorem. If a category is locally finite, essentially countable, and Cauchy complete, then it is ℵ₁-accessible.

In particular, ℵ₁-filtered colimits exist in that case.

For the following categories, ℵ₁-filtered colimits have not been decided yet.

  • category of metric spaces with continuous maps
  • category of schemes -- (skip this, we don't even know filtered colimits)
  • delooping of the additive monoid of ordinal numbers --- I think the answers is YES

This PR also adds a proof that BN is ℵ₁-accessible.

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@ykawase5048 Can you perhaps help here?

@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the aleph1-filtered-colimits branch 2 times, most recently from a60230d to db9ec99 Compare May 14, 2026 23:29
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the aleph1-filtered-colimits branch 2 times, most recently from b60f325 to 89e1bdb Compare May 15, 2026 15:52
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon changed the title Add property: ℵ₁-filtered colimits Add property: ℵ₁-filtered colimits (WIP) May 15, 2026
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the aleph1-filtered-colimits branch from 89e1bdb to 4c98d04 Compare May 17, 2026 17:01
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the aleph1-filtered-colimits branch from e0ac669 to 9e8e4bd Compare May 19, 2026 07:37
the theorem states that every locally finite, essentially countable and cauchy complete category is ℵ₁-accessible
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the aleph1-filtered-colimits branch from 9e8e4bd to b45f47a Compare May 19, 2026 08:50
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon marked this pull request as ready for review May 19, 2026 08:51
@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon changed the title Add property: ℵ₁-filtered colimits (WIP) Add property: ℵ₁-filtered colimits May 19, 2026
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