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More examples of categories that are not Cauchy complete (WIP) - #356

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This PR adresses all unwitnessed property combinations involving Cauchy completeness. It contributes to this milestone.

First, three results are added:

  • one-way ===> Cauchy complete
  • pullbacks ===> Cauchy complete
  • coequalizers of kernel pairs ===> Cauchy complete

These make it possible to remove some previous proofs for categories. They also imply that the 7 combinations

  • one-way ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • pullbacks ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • locally cartesian closed ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • pushouts ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • locally cocartesian coclosed ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • coequalizers of kernel pairs ∧ ¬Cauchy complete
  • equalizers of cokernel pairs ∧ ¬Cauchy complete

are inconsistent, and therefore do not need any witnesses. They are removed from the list.

Next, the PR adds two categories and decides their properties (TODO).

  • The category Euclid of coproducts of Euclidean spaces as an example of an infinitary distributive category that is not Cauchy complete.
  • The category Freefg(Z x Z) of finitely generated free Z x Z-modules as an example of an additive category that is not Cauchy complete.

Number of unwitnessed property combinations before the PR: 668. After: TODO

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ScriptRaccoon force-pushed the no-cauchy branch 2 times, most recently from c981e2e to d83d4a1 Compare September 6, 2026 11:10
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