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Classifying topos

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In mathematics, a classifying topos for some sort of structure is a topos T such that there is an equivalence between geometric morphisms from a topos E to T and the category of structures in E.

Examples

References

  • Mac Lane, Saunders; Moerdijk, Ieke (1992), Sheaves in geometry and logic. A first introduction to topos theory, Universitext, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97710-4, MR 1300636 {{citation}}: line feed character in |title= at position 32 (help)