Fundamental theorem of topos theory

In mathematics, The fundamental theorem of topos theory states that the slice

which preserves exponentials and the subobject classifier.

there is an associated "pullback functor"

which is key in the proof of the theorem.

which shares the same codomain as f, their product

is the diagonal of their pullback square, and the morphism which goes from the domain of

to the domain of f is opposite to g in the pullback square, so it is the pullback of g along f, which can be denoted as

Note that a topos

is isomorphic to the slice over its own terminal object, i.e.

and thereby a pullback functor

denote an object of it, where X is an object of the base category.

is a functor which maps:

This yields so this is how the pullback functor

maps objects of

Furthermore, note that any element C of the base topos is isomorphic to

is indeed a functor from the base topos

Consider a pair of ground formulas

ϕ

ϕ ]

(where the underscore here denotes the null context) are objects of the base topos.

ϕ

ϕ ]

If these are the case then, by theorem, the formula

is true in the slice

ϕ ]

, because the terminal object

of the slice factors through its extension

In logical terms, this could be expressed as so that slicing

would correspond to assuming

Then the theorem would say that making a logical assumption does not change the rules of topos logic.