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 .
A class of -closed morphism which is closed under pullback is an admissible structure defining a geometry in the sense of Lurie’s DAG.
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 .
For the classs of -closed morphisms in we have in addition to the above closure properties also the following ones:
(1) If in a pullback square in the left arrow is in and the bottom arrow is an effective epimorphism, then the right arrow is in .
(2) Every morphism from a discrete object to the terminal object is in .
(3) is closed under colimit (taken in the arrow category).
(4) is closed under forming diagonals.
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.
Let be a morphism of an -category.
(1) We call a cover of if it is an effective epimorphism.
(2) We call a relative cover wrt. a class of morphisms if its pullback along every morphism in is a cover of and lies in .
(3) We call a -atlas of , if it is a cover and is -truncated. A -atlas we call just an 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.
Let be an -category. Let be a morphism.
(1) is called -compact if preserves -filtered colimits.
(2) is called -compact cover if it is a cover and is -compact.
(3) is called relative -compact cover if it is a relative cover wrt. all morphisms with -compact domain.
The class of relative -compact covers is closed under composition, pullbacks, and contains all isomorphisms.
An -orbifold is defined to be a groupoid object in posessing a relative -compact atlas which is also -closed.
The -topos of synthetic differential -groupoids is an infinitesimal cohesive neighborhood of the -topos of smoooth -groupoids.