跳到正文
The Lumenary
研究生一年级Category Theory课程已上线

Elementary topos theory

Elementary toposes as categories that behave like categories of sets (finite limits, exponentials and a subobject classifier); presheaf and sheaf toposes; internal intuitionistic logic; and Lawvere's ETCS as a categorical axiomatisation of sets.

math.cat.elementary-topoi

前置知识

33 项必需的前置知识(一直追溯到底)

你将学会

  • Verify the topos axioms for Set and for presheaf categories [Cᵒᵖ, Set], computing their subobject classifiers.
  • Show that the internal logic of a topos is intuitionistic, and give a presheaf topos whose logic is not Boolean.
  • State the axioms of ETCS and compare them with ZFC.

定义

  • An elementary topos is a category with finite limits, exponentials and a subobject classifier.
  • A subobject classifier is a morphism true : 1 → Ω such that every monomorphism is the pullback of true along a unique morphism to Ω.
  • A Grothendieck topos is a category equivalent to the category of sheaves on a site.

定理

  • Every presheaf category [Cᵒᵖ, Set] on a small category C is a topos.
  • The subobjects of any object of a topos form a Heyting algebra.
  • Set is a Boolean topos, while the topos of presheaves on the poset {0 < 1} is not Boolean.
  • ETCS without a replacement axiom is strictly weaker than ZFC in consistency strength.

常见误解

  • Thinking a topos is a kind of topological space; every space gives a topos of sheaves, but many toposes do not arise in this way.
  • Believing the internal logic of every topos is classical because that of Set is.

可选发现

延伸阅读

  • Saunders Mac Lane and Ieke Moerdijk, Sheaves in Geometry and Logic (1992)
  • Robert Goldblatt, Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979)
  • Peter T. Johnstone, Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory Compendium (2002)