An introduction to fibrations, topos theory, the effective topos and modest sets:

Abstract: "A topos is a categorical model of constructive set theory. In particular, the effective topos is the categorical 'universe' of recursive mathematics. Among its objects are the modest sets, which form a set-theoretic model for polymorphism. More precisely, there is a fibrati...

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1. Verfasser: Phoa, Wesley (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh 1992
Schriftenreihe:Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science <Edinburgh>: LFCS report series 208
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract: "A topos is a categorical model of constructive set theory. In particular, the effective topos is the categorical 'universe' of recursive mathematics. Among its objects are the modest sets, which form a set-theoretic model for polymorphism. More precisely, there is a fibration of modest sets which satisfies suitable categorical completeness properties, that make it a model for various polymorphic type theories. These lecture notes provide a reasonably thorough introduction to this body of material, aimed at theoretical computer scientists rather than topos theorists. Chapter 2 is an outline of the theory of fibrations, and sketches how they can be used to model various typed [lambda]-calculi
Chapter 3 is an exposition of some basic topos theory, and explains why a topos can be regarded as a model of set theory. Chapter 4 discusses the classical PER model for polymorphism, and shows how it 'lives inside' a particular topos -- the effective topos -- as the category of modest sets. An appendix contains a full presentation of the internal language of a topos, and a map of the effective topos. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a sampler of categorical type theory and categorical logic, and should be of more general interest than Chapter 4. They can be read more or less independently of each other; a connection is made at the end of Chapter 3
The main prerequisite for reading these notes is some basic category theory: limits and colimits, functors and natural transformations, adjoints, cartesian closed categories. No knowledge of indexed categories or categorical logic is needed. Some familiarity with 'ordinary' logic and typed [lambda]-calculus is assumed.
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