Atomic Toposes with Co-Well-Founded Categories of Atoms
Abstract
The atoms of the Schanuel topos can be described as the pairs where is a finite set and is a subgroup of . 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.
Cite
@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