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Johnstone's topological topos

Definition

Let Top be the category of topological spaces, and let Σ be the full subcategory whose only two objects are a one-point space and +, the one-point compactification of the discrete space of natural numbers. Let J be the canonical Grothendieck topology on Σ.

Johnstone’s topological topos (specifically, the one described in the eponymous paper referenced below) is the topos of canonical sheaves Sh J(Σ) on Σ. The functor

TopSet Σ op:XTop(,X)Top \to Set^{\Sigma^{op}}: X \mapsto Top(-, X)

is faithful and factors through Sh J(Σ), and its restriction to the category of sequential spaces is full.

Reference

Peter T. Johnstone, On a topological topos, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 38 (1979) 237–271.