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Are all vector-space valued functors on sets free?
Let $\mathbf{Set}$ be the category of finite sets and functions between them, and let $\mathbf{Vect}$ be the category of finite-dimensional complex vector spaces and linear transformations between ...
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Examples and counterexamples to Lack's coherence observation
In Lack's A 2-categories companion, he states
There are general results asserting that any bicategory is biequivalent to
a 2-category, but in fact naturally occurring bicategories tend to be ...
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Existence of nontrivial categories in which every object is atomic
An object $X$ of a cartesian closed category $\mathbf C$ is atomic if $({-})^X \colon \mathbf C \to \mathbf C$ has a right adjoint (hence is also internally tiny). Intuitively, atomic objects are &...
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Examples of 2-categories with multiple interesting proarrow equipment structures
Proarrow equipments (also known as framed bicategories) are identity-on-objects locally fully faithful pseudofunctors $({-})_* \colon \mathcal K \to \mathcal M$ for which every 1-cell $f_*$ in the ...
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