We prove a general theorem which includes most notions of “exact completion” as special cases. The theorem is that “κ-ary exact categories” are a reflective sub-2-category of “κ-ary sites”, for any regular cardinal κ. A κ-ary exact category is an exact category with disjoint and universal κ-small coproducts, and a κ-ary site is a site whose covering sieves are generated by κ-small families and ...

This paper consists of three results on Frobenius categories: (1)we give sufficient conditions on when a factor category of a Frobenius category is still a Frobenius category; (2) we show that any Frobenius category is equivalent to an extension-closed exact subcategory of the Frobenius category formed by Cohen–Macaulaymodules over some additive category; this is an analogue of Gabriel–Quillen’...

The notion of an internal category in a left exact cosimplicial category is introduced. For any topos over sets a certain left exact cosimplicial category is constructed functorially and the category of internal categories in it is investigated. The notion of a fundamental group is defined for toposes admitting the notion of “a discrete category.” Introduction Our primary interest in this paper...

We define the notion of exact completion with respect to an existential elementary doctrine. We observe that the forgetful functor from the 2-category exact categories to existential elementary doctrines has a left biadjoint that can be obtained as a composite of two others. Finally, we conclude how this notion encompasses both that of the exact completion of a regular category as well as that ...

We show that the category of regular epimorphisms in a Barr exact Goursat category is almost Barr exact in the sense that (it is a regular category and) every regular epimorphism in it is an effective descent morphism.

We find a criterion for a morphism of coalgebras over a Barr-exact category to be effective descent and determine (effective) descent morphisms for coalgebras over toposes in some cases. Also, we study some exactness properties of endofunctors of arbitrary categories in connection with natural transformations between them as well as those of functors that these transformations induce between co...