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Sheaves and streams II: sheafification, and stratified étale maps

In part I, I explained how one can build the étale space of a presheaf F over a topological space X. I will show how one can retrieve a sheaf from an étale map, leading to a nice adjunction and … Continue reading

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Sheaves and streams I: sheaves of locally monotone maps

Sheaves are a fundamental notion. In this post and later posts, I would like to explain some of the basic theory of the most mundane notion of sheaves: sheaves of sets over a topological space. My real goal is really … Continue reading

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From prestreams to streams

Last time, I had described two satisfactory models of topological spaces with a local direction of time: Marco Grandis’ d-spaces, and Sanjeevi Krishnan’s prestreams. The two kinds form categories that are related by an adjunction S ⊣ D, discovered by … Continue reading

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Prestreams and d-spaces

How do you model a topological space with a direction of time? That should seem easy; for example, a topological space with a preordering should be enough. But how do you model the directed circle, where times goes counterclockwise? That … Continue reading

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