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@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon commented Jun 28, 2026

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This PR

  • adds the easy proof that Ban is not counital (thus, resolves Is this a correct proof that Ban is counital? #257)
  • adds the classification of regular epimorphisms in Ban
  • adds the proof that Ban is regular
  • adds the proof that Ban has no regular quotient object classifier

Thanks to @dschepler !

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Looks good to me.

On a related note, I'm pretty convinced that the regular epimorphisms in Ban are exactly the linear contractions which are surjective on open unit balls - or equivalently, surjective maps $f : X \to Y$ such that the norm on $Y$ is equal to $\inf { |x| \mid f(x) = y }$. Which should make it pretty easy to show that regular epimorphisms are stable under pullback, and therefore Ban is regular.

@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon changed the title Ban is not counital Ban is regular, and not counital Jun 28, 2026
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Thanks! I have added the proofs. So we have filled 3 gaps instead of just one here, great :)

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Is there a reason why we didn't decide if Ban has effective congruences so far? (and thus, is Barr-exact)

This looks correct and doable. I will try to write it down.

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dschepler commented Jun 28, 2026

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Is there a reason why we didn't decide if Ban has effective congruences so far? (and thus, is Barr-exact)

This looks correct and doable. I will try to write it down.

I guess at the vector space level, it's clear a congruence has to be congruence modulo some subspace. The question is: does the norm have to match the max norm? Just from the conditions $|(x,y)| \ge \max(|x|,|y|)$, $|(x,x)| = |x|$, $|(x,y)| = |(y,x)|$, and $|(x,z)| \le \max(|(x,y)|, |(y,z)|)$. (If so, then clearly the 0 slice is a closed subspace, so the congruence is exactly the kernel pair of the quotient map.)

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Maybe we can also settle "regular quotient object classifier"? It looks like that means that $\Psi$ would have to be big enough to be able to have a dense image in any closed subspace, which you should be able to rule out with a cardinality argument, using the fact that any Banach space is sequential.

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Just noticed: for the description of products, do you need to restrict to the subspace with finite sup-norm, similar to the restriction needed for the description of coproducts?

@ScriptRaccoon ScriptRaccoon changed the title Ban is regular, and not counital Add various properties of Ban Jun 29, 2026
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