Bunge, Marta
[McGill University]
Funk, Jonathon
[University of Saskatchewan]
Jibladze, Mamuka
[UCL]
Streicher, Thomas
[Technische Universität Darmstadt]
We continue the investigation of the extension into the topos realm of the concepts introduced by Fox (Cahiers Top. et Geometrie Diff. Categoriques 36 (1995) 53) and Michael (Indag. Math. 25 (1963) 629) in connection with topological singular coverings. In particular, we construct an analog of the Michael completion of a spread and compare it with the analog of the Fox completion obtained earlier by the first two named authors (J. Appl. Algebra 113 (1996) 1). Two ingredients are present in our analysis of geometric morphisms phi: F --> E between toposes bounded over a base topos P. The first is the nature of the domain of phi, which need only be assumed to be a "definable dominance" over 9, a condition that is trivially satisfied if P is a Boolean topos. The Heyting algebras arising from the object Omega(P) of truth values in the base topos play a special role in that they classify the definable monomorphisms in those toposes. The geometric morphisms F --> F' over epsilon which preserve these Heyting algebras (and that are not typically complete) are said to be strongly pure. The second is the nature of phi itself, which is assumed to be some kind of a spread. Applied to a spread, the (strongly pure, weakly entire) factorization obtained here gives what we call the "Michael completion" of the given spread. Whereas the Fox complete spreads over a topos of correspond to the P-valued Lawvere distributions on E (Acta Math. 111 (1964) 14) and relate to the distribution algebras (Adv. Math.
Bibliographic reference |
Bunge, Marta ; Funk, Jonathon ; Jibladze, Mamuka ; Streicher, Thomas. The Michael completion of a topos spread. In: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Vol. 175, no. 1-3, p. 63-91 (2002) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/41616 |