Add more examples of functors to witness property combinations#306
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This is a continuation of #305. It adds the functors below to bring down the number of missing functor combinations. All properties of each functor have been decided.
As a result, that number is reduced from 87 to only 7.
The forgetful functor from torsion-free abelian groups
First, the PR adds the forgetful functor TorsFreeAb → Ab. It is intended to be an example of a fully faithful functor that does not preserve epis, but it is much more: This brings down the number of missing combinations from 87 to 53. In other words, the functor witnesses 34 combinations (or their duals) that were missing before.
These are:
[*] The dual combination is witnessed, which is enough.
All properties of the functor have been decided. To make this easier, the following basic implication has been added:
The inclusion functor to ordinals
The PR also adds the inclusion functor from IN∞ to On. It is intended to be an example of a functor that preserves binary products but not terminal objects. Actually, it further brings down the number of missing combinations from 53 to 39. The 14 new witnessed combinations (or their duals) are:
All properties of the functor have been decided.
The nerve functor
The nerve functor Cat → sSet provides an example of a fully faithful functor that does not preserve regular epimorphisms. In fact, it brings down the number of missing combinations from 39 to 19. The 20 new witnessed combinations (or their duals) are:
Reflectors preserve terminal objects
A result that I wasn't aware of before: any reflector must preserve terminal objects. Dually, any coreflector must preserve initial objects. This brings down the number of missing combinations (without adding new functors) from 19 to just 17.
Stone-Čech compactification functor
The Stone-Čech compactification Top → CompHaus is added as an example of a reflector that does not preserve binary products. This brings down the number from 17 to just 13. The following four new combinations are witnessed (or their dual):
Rational product functor
The PR also adds the functor Q × – : Top → Top (that already came up when deciding the properties of Top itself). It provides an example of a functor preserving epimorphisms, but not regular epimorphisms. Thus, the two combinations (or their dual)
are witnessed, leaving only 11 missing combinations.
Walking morphism representation
The PR also adds the functor I → Set that is represented by 1 (where I denotes the walking morphism). It is a witness of
which leaves only 9 combinations.
Side remark: The number of witnessed combinations per functor goes down since previously witnessed combinations are not mentioned. For example, the combination essentially injective ∧ ¬preserves epimorphisms that was (only) mentioned for the first functor is actually also satisfied for two other functors in this PR.
Ring idempotents functor
The PR also adds the functor Ring → Set that sends a ring to its set of idempotents. It is a witness for the two combinations
Thus, only 7 combinations remain.