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Quotients of decidable objects in a topos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Peter T. Johnstone
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University of Cambridge

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In (5), Peter Freyd recently raised the question of whether every Grothendieck topos could be obtained from the topos of sets by means of the two constructions of taking sheaves on a locale and of taking continuous actions of a topological group (i.e. the topos-theoretic analogues of the set-theorists' techniques of forcing extensions and permutation models). He showed that these two constructions do suffice to within epsilon; provided we allow ourselves the freedom to take exponential varieties (4) (which do not change the internal logic of the topos) we can obtain every Grothendieck topos in this way.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1983

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