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Arithmetic universes and classifying toposes

Category Theory 2017-01-18 v1

Abstract

Reasoning in the 2-category Con of contexts, certain sketches for arithmetic universes (i.e. list arithmetic pretoposes; AUs), is shown to give rise to base-independent results of Grothendieck toposes, provided the base elementary topos has a natural numbers object. Categories of strict models of contexts TT in AUs are acted on strictly on the left by non-strict AU-functors and strictly on the right by context maps, and the actions combine in a strict action of a Gray tensor product. Any context extension T0T1T_0 \subset T_1 gives rise to a bundle. For each point of T0T_0 - a model MM of T0T_0 in an elementary topos SS with nno - its fibre is a generalized space, the classifying topos S[T1/M]S[T_1/M] for the geometric theory T1/MT_1/M of T1T_1-models restricting to MM. This construction is "geometric" in the sense that for any geometric morphism f:SSf: S' \to S, the classifier S[T1/fM]S'[T_1/f^\ast M] is got by pseudopullback of S[T1/M]S[T_1/M] along ff. This is treated in a fibrational way by considering a 2-category GTop of Grothendieck toposes (bounded geometric morphisms) fibred (as bicategory) over a 2-category of elementary toposes with nno, geometric morphisms, and natural isomorphisms. The notion of classifying topos as representing object for a split fibration is then fibred over variable base using fibrations "locally representable" over a second fibration.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04611,
  title  = {Arithmetic universes and classifying toposes},
  author = {Steven Vickers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04611},
  year   = {2017}
}

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24 pages

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