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Brian J. Day

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On The Existence Of Category Bicompletions

A completeness conjecture is advanced concerning the free small-colimit completion P(A) of a (possibly large) category A. The conjecture is based on the existence of a small generating-cogenerating set of objects in A. We sketch how the validity of the result would lead to the existence of an Isbell-Lambek bicompletion C(A) of such an A, without a "change-of-universe" procedure being necessary to describe or discuss the bicompletion.

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Biclosed bicategories: localisation of convolution

We give a summary (without proofs) of the main results in the author's thesis entitled ``Construction of biclosed categories'' (University of New South Wales, Australia, 1970). This summary is reprinted directly from Report 81-0030 of the School of Mathematics and Physics, Macquarie University, April 1981. In particular, it gives sufficient conditions for existence of an extension of a (pro)monoidal category structure along a given dense functor to a cocomplete category. The two basic procedures used in the proof turn out to be special cases of the final result, the two respective dense functors then being the Yoneda embedding followed by a localisation. The final result has a standard universal property based on left Kan extension of (pro)monoidal functors along the given dense functor, however this property is not stated explicitly here.

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Limits of small functors

For a small category K enriched over a suitable monoidal category V, the free completion of K under colimits is the presheaf category [K*,V]. If K is large, its free completion under colimits is the V-category PK of small presheaves on K, where a presheaf is small if it is a left Kan extension of some presheaf with small domain. We study the existence of limits and of monoidal closed structures on PK.

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Compact convolution

We state a Yoneda-type lemma which leads to various functor categories being compact closed.

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