Let be a monad on a presentable -category . A morphism is called -closed if
is a pullback square.
The class of -closed morphisms satisfies the following closure properties:
(1) Every equivalence is -closed.
(2) The composite of two -closed morphisms is -closed.
(3) The left cancellation property is satisfied: If and and are -closed, then so is .
(4) Any retract of a -closed morphism is -closed.
(5) The class is closed under pullbacks which are preserved by .
Let be a slice of . The full sub--category on those morphisms into which are -closed is reflective and coreflective; i.e. fits into an adjoint triple
In particular is reflective and coreflective.
Let be a cohesive -topos equipped with infinitesimal cohesion
Then the class of formally étale morphisms in equals the class of -closed morphisms in which happen to lie in .
An object of is called formally étale object if there is a formally étale effective epimorphism (called atlas) from a -truncated object into .
The de Rham theorem holds for any formally étale object for which the de Rham theorem holds level-wise in regard to the Cech nerve induced from the atlas.
(1) is a paracompact if there is a set of monomorphisms such that the corresponding Cech groupoid is degree-wise a coproduct of copies of .
(2) is hausdorff if is moreover étale.