2018/12/03 by Simon Henry, Henry, Simon · 1 citation
Mathematics · Medicine · #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Advanced Topology and Set Theory #Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.00652
We show that for any uncountable cardinal λ, the category of sets of cardinality at least λ and monomorphisms between them cannot appear as the category of point of a topos, in particular is not the category of models of a L(∞,ω)-theory. More generally we show that for any regular cardinal κ< λ it is neither the category of κ-points of a κ-topos, in particular, not the category of models of a L(∞,κ)-theory. The proof relies on the construction of a categorified version of the Scott topology, which constitute a left adjoint to the functor sending any topos to its category of points and the computation of this left adjoint evaluated on the category of sets of cardinality at least λ and monomorphisms between them. The same techniques also applies to a few other categories. At least to the category of vector spaces of with bounded below dimension and the category of algebraic closed fields of fixed characteristic with bounded below transcendence degree.