AXIOMATIC COHESION
AXIOMATIC COHESION
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2007
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F. Lawvere
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F. Lawvere
The nature of the spatial background for classical analysis and for modern theories of continuum physics requires more than the partial invariants of locales and cohomology rings for its description. As Maxwell emphasized, this description has various levels of precision depending on the needs of investigation. These levels correspond to different categories of space, all of which have intuitively the feature of cohesion. Our aim here is to continue the axiomatic study of such categories, which involves the following aspects: I. Categories of space as cohesive backgrounds II. Cohesion versus non-cohesion; quality types III. Extensive quality; intensive quality in its rarefied and condensed aspects; the canonical qualities form and substance IV. Non-cohesion within cohesion via constancy on infinitesimals V. The example of reflexive graphs and their atomic numbers VI. Sufficient cohesion and the Grothendieck condition VII. Weak generation of a subtopos by a quotient topos I look forward to further work on each of these aspects, as well as development of categories of dynamical laws, constitutive relations, and other mathematical structures that naturally live in cohesive categories. I. Categories of space as cohesive backgrounds for mathematical structures An explicit science of cohesion is needed to account for the varied background models for dynamical mathematical theories. Such a science needs to be sufficiently expressive to explain how these backgrounds are so different from other mathematical categories, and also different from one another and yet so united that they can be mutually transformed. An everyday example of such mutual transformation is the weatherman’s application of the finite element method (which can be viewed as analysis in a combinatorial topos) to equations of continuum thermomechanics (which can be viewed as analysis in a smooth topos, where smooth functions and distributions live). II. Cohesion versus non-cohesion; quality types I analyze cohesion by contrasting it with non-cohesion. In that I follow Cantor, who approached his Mengen by negating them into Kardinalen; the latter are (not isomorphism Received by the editors 2007-01-16 and, in revised form, 2007-05-31. Transmitted by P. T. Johnstone. Published on 2007-06-05. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 18A40, 18B25, 18B30, 74A60, 74A99.