Arithmetic universes and classifying toposes
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 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 gives rise to a bundle. For each point of - a model of in an elementary topos with nno - its fibre is a generalized space, the classifying topos for the geometric theory of -models restricting to . This construction is "geometric" in the sense that for any geometric morphism , the classifier is got by pseudopullback of along . 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