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From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Cauchy completeness of Cauchy reals
Date: 28 Jan 2003 10:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vkafzrdobg6.fsf@laurie.fmf.uni-lj.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alex Simpson's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:50:18 +0000 (GMT)"

Alex Simpson <als@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > The map e : 2^N --> [0,1] defined by
> >
> >   e x = x_0/2 + x_1/4 + x_2/8 + ...
> >
> > is epi in the effective topos, but it is not regular epi.
>
> This is clearly wrong. Every epi is regular, in a topos.
>
> My original statement was correct. In the effective topos,
> the map from binary representations to Cauchy (= Dedekind)
> reals is not epi.

I stand corrected. I am confusing the effective topos with assemblies
(or modest sets) over the first Kleene algebra.

Andrej





             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28  9:44 Andrej Bauer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 20:51 Dusko Pavlovic
2003-01-29  2:00 ` Toby Bartels
2003-01-29  8:35 ` Alex Simpson
2003-02-04  9:15   ` Dusko Pavlovic
2003-02-05 20:56     ` Toby Bartels
2003-01-27 17:41 Andrej Bauer
2003-01-28  1:50 ` Alex Simpson
2003-01-16 23:05 Generalization of Browder's F.P. Theorem? Michael Barr
2003-01-21 18:11 ` Andrej Bauer
2003-01-22 10:13   ` Cauchy completeness of Cauchy reals Martin Escardo
2003-01-22 23:33     ` Dusko Pavlovic
2003-01-24  8:51       ` Martin Escardo
2003-01-25  2:21         ` Dusko Pavlovic
2003-01-25 16:24           ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
2003-01-27  3:57             ` Alex Simpson
2003-01-23  6:29     ` Vaughan Pratt
2003-02-04  0:47       ` Vaughan Pratt
2003-02-05 16:06         ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
2003-01-23  9:50     ` Mamuka Jibladze
2003-01-24  1:34     ` Ross Street
2003-01-24 16:56   ` Dusko Pavlovic
2003-01-24 19:48     ` Dusko Pavlovic

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