CatDat

category of sheaves

Here, we assume that the topological space XX is neither discrete nor indiscrete, since otherwise this category is just a product of copies of Set\mathbf{Set}. Another valid notation is Sh(X,Set)\mathrm{Sh}(X,\mathbf{Set}).

Satisfied Properties

Properties from the database

Deduced properties

Unsatisfied Properties

Properties from the database

Deduced properties*

*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

Unknown properties

There are 12 properties for which the database doesn't have an answer if they are satisfied or not. Please help to contribute the data!

Special objects

  • terminal object: constant sheaf with value a singleton
  • initial object: constant sheaf with value \varnothing, sending all non-empty open sets to \varnothing and the empty set to a singleton
  • products: section-wise defined direct product
  • coproducts: associated sheaf to the section-wise disjoint union

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: morphisms of sheaves that are bijective on every open set
  • monomorphisms: morphisms of sheaves that are injective on every open subset
  • epimorphisms: morphisms of sheaves f:FGf : F \to G that are "locally surjective": for every local section gG(U)g \in G(U) there is an open covering U=iIUiU = \bigcup_{i \in I} U_i such that each gUiG(Ui)g|_{U_i} \in G(U_i) is contained in the image of f(Ui):F(Ui)G(Ui)f(U_i) : F(U_i) \to G(U_i).
  • regular monomorphisms: same as monomorphisms
  • regular epimorphisms: same as epimorphisms

Comments

  • It is likely that neither of the currently remaining unknown properties (finitary algebraic, locally ℵ₁-presentable, exact filtered colimits, etc.) are satisfied for a generic space XX, but we need to make this precise by adding additional requirements to XX. Maybe we need to create separate entries for specific spaces XX.