Sifted categories #
A category C is sifted if C is nonempty and the diagonal functor C ⥤ C × C is final.
Sifted categories can be characterized as those such that the colimit functor (C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type 
preserves finite products. We achieve this characterization in this file.
Main results #
isSifted_of_hasBinaryCoproducts_and_nonempty: A nonempty category with binary coproducts is sifted.IsSifted.colimPreservesFiniteProductsOfIsSifted: TheType-valued colimit functor for sifted diagrams preserves finite products.IsSifted.of_colimit_preservesFiniteProducts: The converse: if theType-valued colimit functor preserves finite products, the category is sifted.IsSifted.of_final_functor_from_sifted: A category admitting a final functor from a sifted category is itself sifted.
References #
- nLab, Sifted category
 - [Algebraic Theories, Chapter 2.][Adamek_Rosicky_Vitale_2010]
 
A category C IsSiftedOrEmpty if the diagonal functor C ⥤ C × C is final.
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A category C IsSifted if
- the diagonal functor 
C ⥤ C × Cis final. - there exists some object.
 
- nonempty : Nonempty C
 
Instances
Being sifted is preserved by equivalences of categories
In particular a category is sifted iff and only if it is so when viewed as a small category
A sifted category is connected.
A category with binary coproducts is sifted or empty.
A nonempty category with binary coproducts is sifted.
Through the isomorphisms PreservesColimit₂.isoColimitUncurryWhiskeringLeft₂ and
externalProductCompDiagIso, the comparison map colimit.pre (X ⊠ Y) (diag C) identifies with the
product comparison map for the colimit functor.
If C is sifted, the canonical product comparison map for the colim functor
(C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type is an isomorphism.
Sifted colimits commute with binary products
If C is sifted, the colimit functor (C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type preserves terminal objects
If C is sifted, the colim functor (C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type preserves finite products.
If the colim functor (C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type preserves binary products, then C is sifted or
empty.
If the colim functor (C ⥤ Type) ⥤ Type preserves finite products, then C is sifted.
Auxiliary version of IsSifted.of_final_functor_from_sifted where everything is a
small category.
A functor admitting a final functor from a sifted category is sifted.