nLab topos of recursive sets

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The topos of recursive sets, or, for short, the recursive topos , is a Grothendieck topos \mathcal{R} that provides a cartesian closed context to do higher order recursion theory in. It can be viewed as a discrete analogue to the topological topos.

Definition

Let R\mathbf{R} be the monoid of all total recursive functions \mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N} under concatenation viewed as a category with one object \mathbb{N}. Consider the coverage J()J(\mathbb{N}) whose covers consist of finite families of maps (f i:|1in)(f_i:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N} {}|{} 1\leq i \leq n) such that iIm(f i)=\cup_i Im(f_i)=\mathbb{N}.

The recursive topos is defined as =Sh(R,J)\mathcal{R}=Sh(\mathbf{R}, J).

Properties

Proposition

\mathcal{R} is a local topos i.e. the global section functor Γ:Set\Gamma:\mathcal{R}\to Set has a right adjoint: ΓB:Set\Gamma\dashv B: Set\to \mathcal{R}.

This appears as prop.1.5 in Mulry (1982). BB maps a set XX to the sheaf X X^{\mathbb{N}} of sequences of elements in XX.

Proposition

The object D\mathbb{R}_D of Dedekind real numbers corresponds to the sheaf of sequences of real numbers r n\langle r_n\rangle satisfying:

For all n +n\in \mathbb{N}^+ there exists a finite recursive cover A 1,A kA_1,\dots A_k such that for all m 1,m 2m_1, m_2 in A iA_i (i=1,,k)(i=1,\dots,k), |r m 2r m 1|<1/n|r_{m_2}-r_{m_1}|\lt 1/n.

This is prop.4.1 in Mulry (1982).

References

The recursive topos was introduced in

  • P. S. Mulry, Generalized Banach-Mazur functionals in the topos of recursive sets , JPAA 26 (1982) pp.71-83.

A comparison with the effective topos is in chapter 6 of

  • Giuseppe Rosolini, Continuity and Effectiveness in Topoi , PhD thesis University of Oxford 1986. (ps)

See also

  • Peter Johnstone, Sketches of an Elephant vol. I, Oxford UP 2002. (example A2.1.11(k), p.81)

  • F. William Lawvere, Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories , pp.134-145 in LNM 92 Springer Heidelberg 1969. (Reprinted with author’s commentary as TAC Reprint 15 (2006))

  • P. S. Mulry, Adjointness in recursion ,

    APAL 32 (1986), pp.281–289.

  • P. S. Mulry, A categorical approach to the theory of computation ,

    APAL 43 (1989), pp.293–305.

  • P. S. Mulry, Partial map classifiers and partial cartesian closed categories , Theor. Comp. Sci. 136 (1994) pp.109–123.

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