A categorical question

2010-01-11T12:39:11Z

Hi everyone, I want to know the descriptive translation and explanation of a paragraph of EGAI, (chapter 0, 3.1.3)

Supposons que $K$ soit la catégorie définie par une « espèce de structure avec morphismes » $\Sigma$, les objets de $K$ étant donc les ensembles munis de structures d'espèce $Sigma$ et les morphismes ceux de $S$.

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Answer by Zavosh for A categorical question

2010-01-11T15:38:28Z

We suppose that $K$ is a category defined by a "species of structures with morphisms" $\Sigma$, the objects of $K$ are thus the sets endowed with structure of species $\Sigma$ and the morphisms those of $\Sigma$.

This is the language of Bourbaki. "Species of structures" are Bourbaki's version of categories. The analogue of an object is for example a set with some "structure", like a topology, or a group operation. Morphisms are functions that "preserve the structure". Rigorous definitions of these things and their morphisms, in full Bourbaki generality, can be found in Chapter IV: Structures of Theory of Sets.

Here first Grothendieck defines a solution to a universal problem in a category $K$. He's actually defining a limit, but for diagrams that look like a cover. He also defines a sheaf with values in an arbitrary category $K$, giving the extra condition on a presheaf. Then he restricts to the case where $K$ is made of objects with extra structures as above, and assumes that $K$ satisfies a further property: that a solution to a universal problem in $K$ remains a solution in the category of sets if we forget the structures. Then he says that in this case a sheaf with values in $K$ is also a sheaf of sets.

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