A category is called sifted if colimits of diagrams of shape commute with finite products in Set: for every diagram
where is a finite discrete category the canonical morphism
is an isomorphism.
Dually, is called cosifted if the opposite category is sifted.
A colimit over a sifted diagram is called a sifted colimit.
An inhabited small category is sifted precisely if the diagonal functor
is a final functor.
This is due to (GabrielUlmer)
More explicitly this means that:
An inhabited small category is sifted if for every pair of objects , the category of cospans from to is connected.
Every category with finite coproducts is sifted.
Since a category with finite coproducts is nonempty (it has an initial object) and each category of cospans has an initial object (the coproduct).
We make this special case more explicit below in Example .
The diagram category for reflexive coequalizers, with , is sifted.
The presence of the degeneracy map in example is crucial for the statement to work: the category is not sifted; there is no way to connect the cospan to the cospan .
Example may be thought of as a truncation of:
The opposite category of the simplex category is sifted.
Every filtered category is sifted.
Since filtered colimits commute even with all finite limits, they in particular commute with finite products.
(categories with finite products are cosifted)
Let be a small category which has finite products. Then is a cosifted category, equivalently its opposite category is a sifted category, equivalently colimits over with values in Set are sifted colimits, equivalently colimits over with values in Set commute with finite products, as follows:
For to functors on the opposite category of (hence two presheaves on ) we have a natural isomorphism
sifted category, sifted (∞,1)-category
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Jiri Adamek, Jiri Rosicky, Enrico Vitale, Algebraic Theories - a Categorical Introduction to General Algebra , Cambrige UP 2010. (ch. 2) (draft)
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