Infinitary generalizations of Deligne's completeness theorem
Abstract
Given a regular cardinal such that , we study a class of toposes with enough points, the -separable toposes. These are equivalent to sheaf toposes over a site with -small limits that has at most many objects and morphisms, the (basis for the) topology being generated by at most many covering families, and that satisfy a further exactness property . We prove that these toposes have enough -points, that is, points whose inverse image preserve all -small limits. This generalizes the separable toposes of Makkai and Reyes, that are a particular case when , when property is trivially satisfied. This result is essentially a completeness theorem for a certain infinitary logic that we call -geometric, where conjunctions of less than formulas and existential quantification on less than many variables is allowed. We prove that -geometric theories have a -classifying topos having property , the universal property being that models of the theory in a Grothendieck topos with property correspond to -geometric morphisms (geometric morphisms the inverse image of which preserves all -small limits) into that topos. Moreover, we prove that -separable toposes occur as the -classifying toposes of -geometric theories of at most many axioms in canonical form, and that every such -classifying topos is -separable. Finally, we consider the case when is weakly compact and study the -classifying topos of a -coherent theory (with at most many axioms), that is, a theory where only disjunction of less than formulas are allowed, obtaining a version of Deligne's theorem for -coherent toposes.
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@article{arxiv.1709.01967,
title = {Infinitary generalizations of Deligne's completeness theorem},
author = {Christian Espíndola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01967},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Continuation of the paper "Infinitary first-order categorical logic" arXiv:1701.01301, uses similar ideas but is mostly self-contained