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From: Aleks Kissinger <aleks0@gmail.com>
To: David Yetter <dyetter@math.ksu.edu>
Cc: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Name for a concept?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:19:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1UVVYv-00082K-Uz@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838BC420-E6C8-49A1-8AD8-5A5C45E0D496@math.ksu.edu>

Oops, forgot to send to list.

I think its actually a stronger property, but: perhaps cofiltered category?

On 25 April 2013 04:14, David Yetter <dyetter@math.ksu.edu> wrote:
> Is there an existing name in the literature for a category in which every cospan admits a completion to a commutative square?  (Just that, no uniqueness, no universal
> properties required, just every cospan sits inside at least one commutative square).  If so, what have such things been called?  If not, does anyone have a poetic idea for a good name for
> such categories?
>
> Best Thoughts,
> David Yetter
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25  3:14 David Yetter
2013-04-25 14:19 ` Aleks Kissinger [this message]
2013-04-26  1:05   ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2013-04-25 14:37 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
2013-04-25 18:47 ` Eduardo Pareja-Tobes
2013-04-26 13:03   ` M. Bjerrum
     [not found]   ` <Prayer.1.3.5.1304261403520.11018@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2013-04-26 14:05     ` Eduardo Pareja-Tobes
2013-04-26 14:07   ` M. Bjerrum
2013-04-26 10:44 ` Paul Taylor
2013-04-27 13:58 Michael Barr

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