A classifying localic category for locally compact locales with application to the Axiom of Infinity (poster)

TL;DR

This paper constructs a localic category framework for locally compact locales and applies it to provide a new characterization of the Axiom of Infinity within topos theory.

Contribution

It introduces a new stack-theoretic approach to locally compact locales and establishes a localic category that models these structures, leading to a novel characterization of the Axiom of Infinity.

Findings

The stack of locally compact locales is shown to be lax-geometric.

A localic category representing locally compact locales is constructed.

A new localic characterization of the Axiom of Infinity is provided.

Abstract

For an internal category $\mathbb{C}$ in a cartesian category $\mathcal{C}$ we define, naturally in objects $X$ of $\mathcal{C}$, $Prin_{\mathbb{C}}(X)$. This is a category whose objects are principal $c \mathbb{C}$-bundles over $X$ and whose morphisms are principal $c(\mathbb{C}^{\uparrow})$-bundles. Here $c(\_)$ denotes taking the core groupoid of a category (same objects but only isomorphisms as morphisms) and $\mathbb{C}^{\uparrow}$ is the arrow category of $\mathbb{C}$ (objects morphisms, morphisms commuting squares). We show that $X \mapsto Prin_{\mathbb{C}}(X)$ is a stack of categories and call stacks of this sort lax-geometric. We then provide two sufficient conditions for a stack to be lax-geometric and use them to prove that the pseudo-functor $X \mapsto \mathbf{LK}_{Sh(X)}$ on the category of locales $\mathbf{Loc}$ is a lax-geometric stack. Here $\mathbf{LK}_{Sh(X)}$ is the category of locally compact locales in the topos of sheaves over $X$, $Sh(X)$. Therefore there exists a localic category $\mathbb{C}_{\mathbf{LK}}$ such that $\mathbf{LK}_{Sh(X)} \simeq Prin_{\mathbb{C}_{\mathbf{LK}}}(X)$ naturally for every locale $X$. We then show how this can be used to give a new localic characterisation of the Axiom of Infinity.