From: "Prof. Peter Johnstone" <P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Two topos questions
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:22:46 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0511022103330.4541-100000@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cc0d36c0511012253p1a15630ay1c0eb35f724905db@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Peter Arndt wrote:
> Hi, category theorists,
> 1. In a message to the categories list from 15. jan.1997 (that message can
> be seen at http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/catlist/1999/finite-topos) Lawvere
> talks about "the ... internal topos ... which parametrizes the decidable
> K-finites". Does anyone know what exactly is that internal topos? Is there
> some morphism that can be seen as the indexed family of decidable K-finites
> (just like the generic cardinal "is" the indexed family of finite cardinals
> and can be used to construct the full internal subcategory of finite
> cardinals)?
I can't remember exactly what Bill was talking about in that posting.
However, there is no hope of `parametrizing' decidable K-finite objects
by an internal category, unless the ambient topos has a natural number
object (cf. the remarks on pp. 1058-9 of "Sketches of an Elephant"), and
if it does the decidable K-finites are exactly the objects locally
isomorphic to finite cardinals. So I suspect that he was referring to
the internal category of finite cardinals.
> 2. An object Y of a topos is said to have locally a property P if there is
> an object Z with global support such that Z*(Y) has the property P. For the
> topos of sheaves on a T1-space X (and a property P stable under pullback
> along subterminals), I convinced myself that this implies the existence of a
> covering of X, such that P holds on the restriction of Y to each open set of
> the covering. Can this also be proved for schemes or other classes of
> topological spaces, maybe with additional conditions on P?
Yes, of course -- this is exactly the geometric intuition behind this
use of "locally". One needs to assume that P is stable under arbitrary
pullback (which will certainly be the case if it's expressible in the
internal language of a topos). Then, in any topos generated by
subterminals (in particular, in any topos of sheaves on a space),
every cover Z -->> 1 is dominated by one of the form
\coprod_i U_i -->> 1, where the U_i are a family of subterminals
covering 1 in the classical sense. So P holds locally for Y iff it
holds for the restriction of Y to each member of some cover in
the classical sense.
Peter Johnstone
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