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Atomic Toposes with Co-Well-Founded Categories of Atoms

Category Theory 2025-05-27 v2 Logic

Abstract

The atoms of the Schanuel topos can be described as the pairs (n,G)(n,G) where nn is a finite set and GG is a subgroup of Aut(n)\operatorname{Aut}(n). We give a general criterion on an atomic site ensuring that the atoms of the topos of sheaves on that site can be described in a similar fashion. We deduce that these toposes are locally finitely presentable. By applying this to the Malitz-Gregory atomic topos, we obtain a counter-example to the conjecture that every locally finitely presentable topos has enough points. We also work out a combinatorial property satisfied exactly when the sheaves for the atomic topology are the pullback-preserving functors. In this case, the category of atoms is particularly simple to describe.

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@article{arxiv.2406.14346,
  title  = {Atomic Toposes with Co-Well-Founded Categories of Atoms},
  author = {Jérémie Marquès},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14346},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Earlier version of a paper published in Theory and Applications of Categories. This version includes some comments on Fra\"iss\'e limits