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From: Thomas Streicher <streicher@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: when is Fam (E) a topos?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:23:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1d0yx8-0006Ax-8X@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

A couple of days ago I made the wrong claim that

> If BB is a topos and P : XX -> BB is a fibration then P is a fibration
> of toposes iff XX is a topos and P is a logical functor.

The following shows how wrong this claim is.

Let E be a topos then Fam(E) -> Set is certainly a fibered topos
but by Th.6.2.3 of Pieter Hofstra's Thesis Fam(E) is a topos iff E is
an atomic category (in the sense of Johnstone's 1977 book on Topos Theory,
exercise 12 on p. 257). But in atomic categories all morphisms are epic
and thus Fam(E) is a topos only if E is trivial.

Thus, for the motivating examples of fibred toposes the total category
is a topos only in the trivial case!

Thomas


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19  9:23 Thomas Streicher [this message]
2017-04-21  9:01 ` Thomas Streicher
2017-04-22 16:35   ` Peter Johnstone
     [not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1704221719340.10704@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2017-04-23  8:52   ` Thomas Streicher
2017-04-24  9:57 When is Fam(E) " Peter Johnstone

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