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for questions on configuration spaces, both in the sense of spaces that parameterizes collections of points in a manifold, and in the sense of the space of possible states of a classical mechanical physical system.

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Configuration topos?

I think my question, at least the one I meant to ask, is probably best answered by a reference to Michael Weiss's papers on embedding calculus. Especially the Grothendieck topologies $J_k$ seem to be …
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Configuration topos?

Let ${\bf Fin}$ denote the category of finite sets. If $X$ is a topological space, then for any natural number $k\in{\mathbb N}$, the slice category ${\bf Fin}/X$ contains the configuration space $C_k …
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