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Nov 27, 2022 at 19:45 comment added მამუკა ჯიბლაძე Note also that $G$-sets have IC, and, accordingly, I believe, for a $G$-poset $P$ satisfying the internal Zorn condition (that is, the projection from the object of pairs $(\text{chain of $P$}, \text{its upper bound})$ to the object of chains of $P$ is epi), $\max(P)$ is as inhabited as $P$ (but may fail to have any global elements, that is, $G$-fixed points).
Nov 27, 2022 at 19:41 comment added მამუკა ჯიბლაძე @TimCampion The topos of $G$-sets for a group $G$ has LEM but not AC, hence also no Zorn's lemma.
Nov 27, 2022 at 15:51 comment added Tim Campion What's an example of a Grothendieck topos where Zorn's lemma doesn't hold?
Nov 26, 2022 at 8:32 comment added Gro-Tsen Thanks! For completeness of MO, Zorn's lemma is stated as follows for a poset $P$: “If every part of $P$ that is linearly ordered has an upper bound (in $P$) then $P$ has a maximal element”, where a poset is defined by a lax order $≤$ that is reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive, “linearly ordered” means $∀x.∀y.(x≤y∨y≤x)$, and a “maximal” element is an $m$ such that $∀z.(m≤z⇒m=z)$.
Nov 26, 2022 at 3:41 history answered Ingo Blechschmidt CC BY-SA 4.0