The fundamental progroupoid of a general topos

• Autores: Dubuc, Eduardo Julio
• Año de publicación: 2008
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: GALOIS TOPOS; FUNDAMENTAL GROUPOID; COVERING PROJECTION
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

It is well known that the category of covering projections (that is, locally constant objects) of a locally connected topos is equivalent to the classifying topos of a strict progroupoid (or, equivalently, a localic prodiscrete groupoid), the fundamental progroupoid, and that this progroupoid represents first degree cohomology. In this paper we generalize these results to an arbitrary topos. The fundamental progroupoid is now a localic progroupoid, and cannot be replaced by a localic groupoid. The classifying topos is no longer a Galois topos. Not all locally constant objects can be considered as covering projections. The key contribution of this paper is a novel definition of covering projection for a general topos, which coincides with the usual definition when the topos is locally connected. The results in this paper were presented in a talk at the Category Theory Conference, Vancouver, July 2004.
Fil: Dubuc, Eduardo Julio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; Argentina