A Categorical Notion of Precompact Expansion

Keegan Dasilva Barbosa

Published 2020-02-26Version 1

We generalize the notion of relational precompact expansions of Fra\"iss\'e classes via functorial means, inspired by the technique outlined by Laflamme, Nguyen Van Th\'e and Sauer in their paper Partition properties of the dense local order and a colored version of Milliken's theorem arXiv:0710.2885. We also generalize the expansion property and prove that categorical precompact expansions grant upper bounds for Ramsey degrees. Moreover, we show under strict conditions, we can also compute big Ramsey degrees. We also apply our methodology to calculate the big and little Ramsey degrees of the objects in Age$(\mathbf{S}(n))$ for all $n\geq 2$.