-valued models of -coherent categories
arXiv:2306.05345 · doi:10.1007/s10485-025-09804-4
Abstract
A basic technique in model theory is to name the elements of a model by introducing new constant symbols. We describe the analogous construction in the language of syntactic categories/ sites. As an application we identify -valued regular functors on the syntactic category with a certain class of topos-valued models (we will refer to them as "-valued models"). For the coherent fragment this was proved by Jacob Lurie, our discussion gives a new proof, together with a generalization to when is weakly compact. We present some further applications: first, a -valued completeness theorem for ( is weakly compact), second, that regular functors (on coherent categories with disjoint coproducts) admit an elementary map to a product of coherent functors.