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J IRI R OSICKÝ Equational categories
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EQUATIONAL CATEGORIES
by Jiri ROSICKÝ
CAHIERS DE TOPOLOGIE E T GEOM ETRIE DIFFEREN TIEL L E
3e COL LOQUE
SUR LES CATEGORIES DEDIE A CHARLES EHRESMANN Vol. XXII-1 (1981)This paper contains some structure
theory
ofequational categories (in
the sense ofLinton [3] ),
of Beckcategories (see
Manes[5] )
and ofcompletions
thatthey provide.
It continues theprevious
author’sinvestig-
ations
[10
and11].
We shall work in a
given
universe11
inZermelo- Fraenkel
set the- ory with the axiom of choice. Theuniverse ’lie
ofhereditarily
finite setsis
permitted.
Elements of’U
will be called sets, subsetsof It
classes andsets
(in
the sense ofZF )
will be called metaclasses. It would bepossible
to work more
generally
in a suitable settheory
with the above three levels of sets. There are thecorresponding
levels ofcategories :
smallcategories, categories
andmetacategories.
The category of all sets will be denoted
by 8( h ) (briefly by $ ).
Under a concrete
category
we will mean acouple ((f, U) consisting
of acategory
1i
and of a faithful functorU: A -+ 8 .
Sometimes we will denote itbriefly by 1i .
A concretefunctor F:(A, U) -+ (A’, U’)
is a functorF: A -+ 1i’
such that U’. F =U.
A concretesubcategory
means a subcat-egory such that the inclusion functor is concrete. More
generally,
we couldwork with
categories over 8 ,
i, e, without theassumption
of faithfulness ofU.
But the much moreimportant generalization
consists in thereplacement of 8 by
anarbitrary category !( .
In order to be more concise we shall workover
8
and shall not present the results in their fullgenerality.
I. EQUATIONAL CATEGORIES.
A
type
t is defined as a metaclass ofoperation symbols.
Their ari-ties are
arbitrary
cardinals( i, e,
the cardinalsbelonging to ’U ). tn
willdenote the metaclass of all n-ary
operation symbols
from t.An equational
metacategory (t, I ) -Alg
consists of allt-algebras satisfying
agiven
meta-class
I
ofequations. If 31
is at-algebra
andf E t
thenfR
denotes theinterpretation
off in -N .
The reasonswhy t
and I are metaclasses will appeargradually.
Now weonly
indicate that if t is a class thent-Alg
neednot be a category. Some smallness conditions on
equational categories
arediscussed in Reiterman
[7].
It is well-known that
monadic categories
coincide withequational categories (A, U )
such thatU
has a leftadjoint ( see
Linton[3])
andthat Beck’s theorem characterizes them as concrete
categories
such thatthe
underlying
functorinto 8
has a leftadjoint
and createscoequalizers
of
U-absolute pairs.
-We remark thatequational metacategories
arequite
nat-ural from the
point
of view of universes. In the case ofllf’ (t, I)-Alg con-
sists of all finite universal
algebras
from avariety given by
a set( in
thesense of
ZF)
offinitary operations.
Since avariety
often has infinite freealgebras
over finite sets,( t , I )-Alg generally
is far frombeing
monadic.Under an oo-filtered limit we mean a limit taken over an ordered me-
taclass such that any of its subsets has a lower bound. The dual concept is an oo-filtered colimit. 1re remark that class-indexed colimits of categ- ories are
categories,
which is not true for limits(even oo-filtered).
1.1. THEOR EM.
Any equational metacategory
is anoo- filtered limit o f
equa-tional categories. I f u # Uf then equational metacategories coin cide with
--filtered
limitsof monadic categories (limits
inthe
senseo f
concretecategorzes
and concretefunctors ).
P ROOF .
Let @ = (t, I)-Alg
be anequational
metacategory.Assign
to eachset s C t the category
ES = (s, Is)-Alg
whereIs
consists of allequations
from I written
by
means ofoperation symbols
of s( i, e. (t, I)
is the con-servative extension of
( s Is) ). We
get the concrete functorsof reducts and
similarly Rs : E -+ Es.
It is easy to see thatR s
form thelimit cone for
Rs’. s . Moreover,
ifIt A Uf
thenEs
is monadic.Conversely,
letFd : A -+ Nd
be an oo-filtered limit ofFd
d’ :Md -+ mdl .
If
md = (td, Id)-Alg
thenFd . d’
inducemorphisms
of
equational
theories. Then1i
isisomorphic
to(t, I)-Alg
where(t, I)
isthe colimit of
ed., d .
Under a
monadic completion
of a concrete categoryA
we shall mean a reflection of1i
into monadiccategories.
It therefore consists of a mon- adic categoryM(d)
and of a concrete functorMA: A -+ M(A) ( briefly
denoted
by M )
such that for any concrete functorF : 1i - 11
monadic there exists aunique
concrete functorF:M(A) -+ M
withI . M
=F . Following
Linton
[4]? ?(8)
exists iff(8, U )
istractable,
i.e. iff there exists thecodensity
monadRU
ofU ,
andRU
then is the monadof m «(1) .
Of course,an
equational comple tzon o f (f
is a reflectionE (1 : (1-+ Cg( A) of Cl
intoequational categories.
1.2. COROLL ARY. An
equational completion of (i
is areflection of (t
intoequational metacategories. ( Proof
followsby 1.1. )
If
(A, U )
is a concrete metacategory then itscanonical type tet
con-sists of all natural transformations
Un -+
U where n runs over cardinals(Un(A)
is defined asU(A)n ). Any A E 1i gives
rise to thet(1-algebra
L( A ) by
thesetting
If
I (f
denote s all theequations
which hold inL(A) ( i, e ,
for anyL ( A ),
A c
Q )
then we get theequational
metacategoryL(A) = (tA, IA)-Alg (see
L inton
[4]).
ThenLA:A -+ L(A)
is a concrete functor.Following [4],
if1i
is tractable thenL: A -+ I( 1i)
is the monadiccompletion of d .
IfF ; (I, ( t , I )-Alg
is a concrete functor then any term p oftype i
definesthe natural transformation p F
E ta by
means of1.3.
LEMMA.Any
concretefuncto r F : A -+ (t, I)-Alg
canbe factoriz ed
through L (I
PROOF. The desired concrete functor
is
given by
means ofA concrete category
8
will be calledcanonically equational
if L(1
is an
isomorphism.
Anexemple
of anequational
categoryQ
which is notcanonically equational
and such thatL(A)
is a category(see [6])
showsthat,
inspite
of1.3, La
need not be anequational completion
of(1 ( and
not
only owing
to the size ofî( (1) ).
The reason is thatL(A)
may con- tain too manyoperations. Nevertheless, 1.3
makes a monadfrom Y- ,
whichimplies
thatwhenever L(A)
is notcanonically equational
then the sameholds
for L(L(A)) (see [11]).
2. BECK CATEGORIES.
We recall that a
Beck category
is a concrete category(Q, U)
suchthat U creates limits and
coequalizers
ofU-absolute pairs.
ABeck
com-p letion
of a concrete category(A, U)
is a reflectionBA: d - B(A) of A
into Beck
categories.
2.1. THEOREM. Let
(A, U) be
asmall
concretecategory. Then M (î
isthe Beck completion of Q (it
even isthe reflection of Q
intoBeck
meta-categories) .
PROOF.
Consider
a concrete functorF:A -+ B
intoa Beck metacategory
(B, V).
Denote theforgetful
functorof M(A) by W and
letS
orT
be theright
Kan extension ofF or M
resp.along U .
We recallthat R
denotesthe
codensity
monadof U .
Letbe the natural transformations
exhibiting
thecorresponding
Kan extensions.C le arly
There are
unique
naturaltransformations
such thatEvidently, Wr = Vo-
= Il is themultiplication
of the monadR . Any R-algebra ( X, h) gives
rise to the absolutecoequalizer
The
parallel pair
on the left is theimage by W
orV
ofresp. The
R-algebra (X, h)
is thecreating object in M(A)
and we shalldenote the
creating object in 53 by F(X, h).
It is easy to see thatw
F : M(A) -+ B
is a concretefunctor.
SinceM(A) = (U A, pA), F. M = F
holds. The
unicity of F
isproved
in[10] (see 3.7).
2.2. THEOREM.
Any
concretecategory N has
aBeck completion which
even is a
reflection o f Q
intoBeck metacategories.
PROOF.
S
is an 00 -filtered colimit of thediagram consisting
of all small fullsubcategories
of1i together
with theinclusions. 5H
takes thisdiagram
to the
diagram
D of monadiccategories.
Theorem 2.1together
with thefact that an oo-filtered colimit of Beck
categories
is a Beck category im-plies
that the colimit of D is the Beckcompletion
of(I.
2.3.
COROL L ARY.Beck categories coincide with oo-filtered colimits of
monadic
categories.
2.3
isproved
in[10] ;
the indicated colimits are c lass-indexed and of concretecategories. B Q
is full iff there is a full concrete functor from8
into a Beck category. IfB A
is full thenU
reflects limitsand coequal-
izers of
U-absolute pairs.
The converse is trueprovided U
creates limits( see [10], 4.3 ).
3. BIRKHOF F SUBCATEGORIES.
A
Birkhoff subcategory
is defined as a fullsubcategoryof
an equa- tional metacategory closed underproducts, subalgebras
andhomomorphic images (see
Manes[5]).
Birkhoffsubcategories
behave well inweakly
compact universes. A
universe 11
isweakly
compact if for any tree which is a class and all its levels are sets there exists apath through
it.11 f
isweakly
compactfollowing K6nig’s
Lemma.Concerning weakly
compact car-dinals,
see e. g.[2] .
The use of weak compactness in our situation lies in the follow-
ing
lemma(if 93 C D
cQ
then an extensionof 0 to J9
means a naturaltransformation y: Wn -+ W, where W
is the restriction of Uon T
such thatVJB
=OB
forall B E S ).
3.1.
LEMMA.Let It be weakly compac4 ( 93, V) be
afull
concre tesubcat-
egory
of a
concretecategory (A, U ) and 0 : Vn -+ V be
anatural transfo r-
mation
which
canbe extended
to93ue for
anys e t C o f objects o f Cl. Then
q5
canbe extended to A.
PROO F . The class of
objects
of8
which do notbelong to 93
is a unionof an
ascending
chaineo
c ...ea
C ... of its subsets indexedby
all ord-inals.
Consider
the tree T which consists of all extensionsof 0
toCa
with the
ordering given by
the restrictions. Since anyea
is a set, levelsof
T
are sets too. Then apath through T provides
the extensionof q5 106.
3.2.
THEOREM.Let 14 be weakly compact and A be
a concretecategory.
Then the
concretefunctor K : 93 (CI) - f (A) given by
2.2 isthe full embed- ding making B(A)
aBirkhoff subcategory o f L(A).
PROOF. The fullness of
K
isproved
in6.9
of[10]
in the case ofIlf .
Theproof
for aweakly
compact universe is the same because3.1 plays
the roleof 6.8
of [10].
Since theunderlying functor W of 93 (Ct)
creates limits anymorphism f :
A - A’of B(A)
withmust be the
identity
on A =A’ .
Hence K is a fullembedding.
The factthat
is a Birkhoffsubcategory of 2 (A)
isproved
in 6.10 of[10]
for
TL
and theweakly
compact case is the same,again.
3.3.
COROL L A RY.If U
isweakly compact then Beck categories coincide
with Birkho ff subcategories o f equational metacategories.
3.4.
COROLLA RY. L et ’U be weakly compact
and(A, U) be
a concretecategory such that
v createslimits. Then the following conditions
areequivalent:
(i ) There
exists afull
concreteembedding of Q
into anequational
m etacategory.
(ii) U re flects coequalizers o f U-absolute pairs.
Proof follows
by
3.3 and Theorem4.3
of[10].
3.5.
LEMMA( Goralcik, Koubek).
Let11
beweakly compact and (B, Y)
bea
Birkhoff subcategory of
anequational category (E , U). Then
anynatural
transformation 0: Vn -
v canbe extended to E .
PROOF.
Let ( t, I )-Alg .
For anyset C
ofalgebras from 93
there ex-ists a term
p ( d )
oftype t
such that( s ee
theproof
of thePropos ition
from[11] ).
L
et Z
be a set ofalgebras from l$
notbelonging to 9 .
Define theequivalence
relation on the metaclass of all n-ary terms oftype t
as fol-lows :
Since - has
only
a set ofequivalence classes,
there is anequivalence
class T such
that ij3
is the union ofall C
such thatp (e) f. T .
The set-ting VI gi
=pR
for p c Tgives
the extensionof 0 to B3 uZ.
Thus the result follows from
3.1 .
In an
arbitrary U,
3.5 holds forany é
such that the number of itsobjects
has the tree property.Goralcik
and Koubek(see [1] )
haveproved
3.5
inlif
for anyequational metacategory @ by
means of thefollowing
argument.
Under
aregular
extensionof 95
we shall mean an extension of~
which is inducedby
a term(in
the sense of thebeginning
of theproof
of
3.5 )
on any set ofalgebras.
Theproof
of3.5
showsthat 0
can beregul- arly
extended toeach ? 6 @ .
The assertion now follows from the fact that there is a maximalregular
extensionof 0 . Indeed,
any filtered set ofregul-
ar extensions has an upper bound.
However,
the last statement holdsonly
for
Up
because otherwise oo -filtered does not meanfiltered.
The next theorem is the extension of Birkhoff
variety
Theorem tothe
equational
case(for E= ( t, I)-Alg being
monadicimplies
thattE
=t ).
This theorem was
proved by
Reiterman( see [8] )
in’If - Goralcik and Kou-
bek
(see [1] )
havegeneralized
the theorem to anyequational metacategory ( in Up again;
see the aboveremark)
andthey
have alsosimplified
Reiter-man’s
original proof.
Theirproof
starts from3.5
and works for aweakly
compact
universe,
too. For the reader’sconvenience,
we write down how3.6
follows from
3.5.
We remark that this derivation isanalogous
to theproof
of
6.10
of[10] (6.10
uses the typest Ca, 3.6 tM(Ca);
these types gener-a 03B1 )
ally
aredistinct).
We mention that3.6
does not inferthat 93
isequational.
3.6.THEOREM (Reiterman). Let 11 be weakly compact and B be
aBirk- hoff subcategory of
anequational category &. Then B
isdetermined
in& by equations o f the type
tB ( i.
e.if ~ R = t/1 gi for any cp, t/1
c tE hav- ing the
same restrictionon B then 31 E B ).
PROOF.
Let ( t,1 )-Alg
andU
be theforgetful
functorof
Follow-ing [10] 6.5, $l
is a union of anascending
chainmo
C ...?
C ... ofmonadic
categories
indexedby
all the ordinals.Let 91
be analgebra
from@
notbelonging to
and n be thecardinality
ofU(R) .
For any a thereare n-ary terms
Pa q a
oftype t
such that theequation p a
=qa
holdson ?
and noton R .
Since there isonly
a set ofmappings U(R )n - U(R )
we may assume that
Since terms induce natural
transformations, following 3.1
and3.5
there are~, U E t E having
the same restrictionon $3
and such that~ R # U R
4. EQUATIONAL COMPLETION.
4.1.
LEMM A.Let 8 be
a concretecategory and ~ , U
ft E Q ) such that
cP E (j = t/J E (1. Then ~ = U.
PROOF. Let
E (A) = (t,l)-Alg
and consider the type t’ =t u {~, U}
.ThenI
is atheory
of typet’,
and letI ’
=I u {~ = U }.
Thenare
equational categories.
Denoteby T: iS’- E
the inclusion andby
R: L(E(A))-E
the reduct.Since ~ EA = UEA ,
there is a concrete func-tor
F : (î -+ 8’
such thatHence there is a concrete functor
But it follows
that 0
=U.
Now,
we can state the main theorem.4.2. THEOREM.
Let 11 be weakly compact and 8
a concretecategory.
Then
anequational completion of (f
existsiff 93(Cf)
ise quational and B Cf is in this
casethe equational completion of (i .
PROO F .
If B(A)
isequational
thenB (t evidently
is theequational
com-pletion of 8..Assume that E(A) = (t ,1 )-Alg
exists. There appear con-crete functors
w ith
(concerning L
see1.2).
SinceL.E
is the functorK
from3.2, B (A)
isa
Birkhoff subcategory
ofL(A)
and hence ofE (A) ,
too.Following 3.6
and4.1, @(8) = B(A)
holds.Hence a Beck category which is not
equational
can not have anequational completion. Concerning
such a Beck category see[10],
6.1.A concrete category
1i
will be calledstable
if4.3.
THEOREM.Consider the following
statementsfor
agiven
concretecategory (f:
( i ) L (1: A - L (Ct)
isthe Beck completion o f (i.
(ii)
L(1: A - L (A)
isthe equational completion o f Ct.
(iii) (f
isstable and 2- ((1)
is acategory.
Then (i) => ( ii ) > (iii). 1 f U
isweakly compact, then
all three state- ments areequivalent.
P ROO F .
Clearly (i) ( ii ).
A ssume( ii )
andlet 0,E tL(A) .
LetUE tL(A)
be
given by
thesetting
Since ~ L =UL , ~ = U
holdsby
4.1 and thusQ
is stable.Let U
beweakly
compact and( iii )
hold.Following 3.6, B (A)
is det-ermined
in L(A) by equations
of typetL(A)
and henceby equations
oftype
tA
because1i
is stable.However,
if anequation
of typetA
holdsin B(A)
then it also holds in1i
and thusin 2 (A) ,
too. Therefore wehave B(A) = L(A)
and( i )
isproved.
If
L(A)
is monadic thenA clearly
is stable and thus4.3 implies
that 2.1 holds for any tractable
A
in aweakly
compact11. Concerning
anexample
of a stable concrete category1i
suchthat
is notmonadic, see [11].
IfQ
is stable then it is easy to seethat
iscanonically equational.
I do not know whether the converse is true or not.Notice
never-theless that the consequence of
3.6
is that if11
isweakly
compact andL(A)
acanonically equational
category, thenB (t
is theequational
com-pletion
ofQ .
4.4. PROPOSITION.
Let (t, I)-Alg be
anequational completion o f ct. Then
(tA,IQ) is
a conservative extensiono f ( t , I ) .
PROOF. The result is
given by
the fact that for all terms p, q oftype t,
pEA
=qEA implies, by 4.1,
that theequation
p = q followsfrom 1.
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