On the Beck--Chevalley condition
Category Theory
2026-07-07 v1 Logic
Abstract
Boolean hyperdoctrines provide an algebraic semantics for classical first-order logic with equality. In the definition of a Boolean hyperdoctrine, the Beck--Chevalley condition captures the commutativity of substitutions with quantifiers and with equality. Often, a generalization of these conditions is considered, which requires the commutativity of an appropriate square for every pullback square in the base category. A Boolean hyperdoctrine satisfying this condition is called full. Our contribution is twofold. On the negative side, we exhibit a non-full Boolean hyperdoctrine. On the positive side, we show that every Boolean hyperdoctrine over is full.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.06386,
title = {On the Beck--Chevalley condition},
author = {Marco Abbadini and Francesca Guffanti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06386},
year = {2026}
}