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Classifying topoi in synthetic guarded domain theory
Several different topoi have played an important role in the development and
applications of synthetic guarded domain theory (SGDT), a new kind of synthetic
domain theory that abstracts the concept of guarded recursion frequently
employed in the semantics of programming languages. In order to unify the
accounts of guarded recursion and coinduction, several authors have enriched
SGDT with multiple "clocks" parameterizing different time-streams, leading to
more complex and difficult to understand topos models. Until now these topoi
have been understood very concretely qua categories of presheaves, and the
logico-geometrical question of what theories these topoi classify has remained
open. We show that several important topos models of SGDT classify very simple
geometric theories, and that the passage to various forms of multi-clock
guarded recursion can be rephrased more compositionally in terms of the lower
bagtopos construction of Vickers and variations thereon due to Johnstone. We
contribute to the consolidation of SGDT by isolating the universal property of
multi-clock guarded recursion as a modular construction that applies to any
topos model of single-clock guarded recursion.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on
Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2022
Natural models of homotopy type theory
The notion of a natural model of type theory is defined in terms of that of a
representable natural transfomation of presheaves. It is shown that such models
agree exactly with the concept of a category with families in the sense of
Dybjer, which can be regarded as an algebraic formulation of type theory. We
determine conditions for such models to satisfy the inference rules for
dependent sums, dependent products, and intensional identity types, as used in
homotopy type theory. It is then shown that a category admits such a model if
it has a class of maps that behave like the abstract fibrations in axiomatic
homotopy theory: they should be stable under pullback, closed under composition
and relative products, and there should be weakly orthogonal factorizations
into the class. It follows that many familiar settings for homotopy theory also
admit natural models of the basic system of homotopy type theory.Comment: 51 page
A logical study of some 2-categorical aspects of topos theory
There are two well-known topos-theoretic models of point-free generalized spaces: the original Grothendieck toposes (relative to classical sets), and a relativized version (relative to a chosen elementary topos with a natural number object) in which the generalized spaces are the bounded geometric morphisms from an elementary topos to , and they form a 2-category . However, often it is not clear what a preferred choice for the base should be.
In this work, we review and further investigate a third model of generalized spaces, based on the 2-category of âcontexts for Arithmetic Universes (AUs)â presented by AU-sketches which originally appeared in Vickersâ work in [Vic19] and [Vic17].
We show how to use the AU techniques to get simple proofs of conceptually stronger, base-independent, and predicative (op)fibration results in , the 2-category of elementary toposes equipped with a natural number object, and arbitrary geometric morphisms. In particular, we relate the strict Chevalley fibrations, used to define fibrations of AU-contexts, to non-strict Johnstone fibrations, used to define fibrations of toposes.
Our approach brings to light the close connection of (op)fibration of toposes, conceived as generalized spaces, with topological properties. For example, every local homeomorphism is an opfibration and every entire map (i.e. fibrewise Stone) is a fibration
Variations on the bagdomain theme
AbstractThe notion of bagdomain was first introduced by Vickers, (1992) and further studied by the present author in (Johnstone, 1992). In these papers, attention was focused on one particular version of the bagdomain construction, the âbagâ analogue of the lower (Hoare) powerdomain; but there are many other possibilities. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce some of these possibilities and to describe their basic properties, using the theory of fibrations and partial products developed in (Johnstone, 1993)