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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A little something on Topoi

A Topos E is a mathematical object called a locally small Category, which has limits and a power object.  That is to say that for any object A of E the functor Sub(- \times A) of objects which factor through - \times A is  non-empty member of the category Sets.  Moreover there is an object of E called the power object of A for which Hom(-,PA)\cong  Sub(-,-\times A).

Note: recall since E is locally small Hom(-PA) is a set so the equivalence of objets above is a bijection in Sets.

Some examples of Topoi would be the category sets; here for any object X PX is \mathscr{P}(X) its power set.  With the natural equivalence of \phi: Hom(-,PA)\cong  Sub(-,-\times A) to be \phi:Hom(1,PB)\rightarrowSub(B).

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