Commit 2022-07-27 11:14 b8fb47c4
View on Github →refactor(topology/sheaves): Redefine sheaves in terms of Grothendieck topology. (#15384)
We change the "official definition" of sheaves over topological spaces from the equalizer diagram condition to the condition in terms of the Grothendieck topology on Opens(X)
. The benefit is that
- The
X.Sheaf C
category is now defeq to(opens.grothendieck_topology X).Sheaf C
, so that functors between categories of sheaves over sites could be specialized onto topological spaces without the abundant equivalences. - It allows sheaves over spaces to value in arbitrary categories that doesn't have all products.
The original sheaf condition is now called
presheaf.is_sheaf_equalizer_products
, andpresheaf.is_sheaf_iff_is_sheaf_equalizer_products
(intopology.sheaves.sheaf_condition.sites
) shows that the two are equivalent.