Accessible images revisited

Abstract

We extend and improve the result of Makkai and Par\'e that the powerful image of any accessible functor F is accessible, assuming there exists a sufficiently large strongly compact cardinal. We reduce the required large cardinal assumption to the existence of $L_{\mu,\omega}$-compact cardinals for sufficiently large {\mu}, and also show that under this assumption the {\lambda}-pure powerful image of F is accessible. From the first of these statements, we obtain that the tameness of every Abstract Elementary Class follows from a weaker large cardinal assumption than was previously known. We provide two ways of employing the large cardinal assumption to prove each result - one by a direct ultraproduct construction and one using the machinery of elementary embeddings of the set-theoretic universe.