fa.functional analysis - Compact Hausdorff and C^*-algebra "objects" in a category.

Question 1: If I understand you correctly, you're proposing that $mathbb{C}$ should be a compact Hausdorff object in some category because it represents a functor from that category to the category CH of compact Hausdorff spaces (in something like the sense that the functor $Hom(-, mathbb{C})$ into Set factors through the forgetful functor from CH to Set). But I don't see why this should be sufficient to make $mathbb{C}$ a compact Hausdorff object.

That is, presumably, from the approach of functorial semantics, a compact Hausdorff object in a category C should be a product-preserving functor from L to C, where L is the dual of the Kleisli category for the ultrafilter monad on Set (that is, L is the Lawvere theory whose category of (Set-)models is the category of compact Hausdorff spaces). I can see how, more generally, for any Lawvere theory L and category C, every C-model of L (i.e., a product-preserving functor F from L to C) induces a representable functor Hom(-, F(1)) from C to Set which factors through the forgetful functor from Set-models of L to Set. But it's not obvious to me that the converse of this holds as well (that every representable functor from C to Set with this factorization property arises from some C-model of L).

Perhaps I'm missing something and your reasoning for $mathbb{C}$ being a compact Hausdorff object is something more than this. Perhaps I'm hopelessly confused. But, tentatively, I think the answer to question 1 is "No" or at least "Not necessarily".

(Edit: As seen below, the correspondence does go both ways, so the last line is retracted, leaving the second-to-last line...)

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