Regular Logic and Regular Categories
Regular logic is the fragment of first-order logic that can express statements of the form
where and are regular formulae i.e. formulae built up from atomic formulae, the truth constant, binary meets and existential quantification. Such formulae can be interpreted in a regular category, and the interpretation is a model of a sequent
if the interpretation of factors through the interpretation of . This gives for each theory (set of sequences) and for each regular category C a category Mod(T,C) of models of T in C. This construction gives a functor Mod(T,-):RegCat→Cat from the category RegCat of small regular categories and regular functors to small categories. It is an important result that for each theory T and for each category C, there is a category R(T) and an equivalence
which is natural in C. Up to equivalence any small regular category C arises this way as the classifying category, of a regular theory.
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