What are sifted colimits?

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ROSICKÝ Jiří ADÁMEK J. VITALE E. M.

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Theory and Applications of categories
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Faculty of Science

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Field General mathematics
Keywords sifted colimit;filtered colimit;reflexive coequalizer
Description Sifted colimits are ``almost'' just the combination of filtered colimits and reflexive coequalizers. For example, a functor with a finitely cocomplete domain preserves sifted colimits iff it preserves filtered colimits and reflexive coequalizers. But for general domains that statement is not true.
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