definition. topos [kostecki2011introduction, 7.1] [tt-004O]
definition. topos [kostecki2011introduction, 7.1] [tt-004O]
A topos or elementary topos is a category satisfying one of these equivalent conditions:
- it is a complete category with exponentials and subobject classifier
- it is a complete category with subobject classifier and its power object
- it is a cartesian closed category with equalizers and subobject classifier
Since the completeness of a category with subobject classifier implies its cocompleteness. Thus a topos not only has all finite limits, but also has all finite colimits.
This means that topos is such category which has, in particular,
- terminal object
- equalizers
- pullbacks
- all other limits
- exponential objects
- subobject classifier