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A 2-Categorical Analysis of the Tripos-to-Topos Construction

Category Theory 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

We characterize the tripos-to-topos construction of Hyland, Johnstone and Pitts as a biadjunction in a bicategory enriched category of equipment-like structures. These abstract concepts are necessary to handle the presence of oplax constructs --- the construction is only oplax functorial on certain classes of cartesian functors between triposes. A by-product of our analysis is the decomposition of the tripos-to-topos construction into two steps, the intermediate step being a weakened version of quasitoposes.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2776,
  title  = {A 2-Categorical Analysis of the Tripos-to-Topos Construction},
  author = {Jonas Frey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2776},
  year   = {2011}
}