{"title":"Positively closed Sh(B)-valued models","authors":"Kristóf Kanalas","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2026.103726","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study positively closed and strongly positively closed topos-valued models of coherent theories. Positively closed is a global notion (it is defined in terms of all possible outgoing homomorphisms), while strongly positively closed is a local notion (it only concerns the definable sets inside the model). For <strong>Set</strong>-valued models of coherent theories they coincide.</div><div>We prove that if <span><math><mi>E</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>S</mi><mi>h</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>B</mi><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>τ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>h</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> for a complete Boolean algebra, then positively closed but not strongly positively closed <span><math><mi>E</mi></math></span>-valued models of coherent theories exist, yet, there is an alternative local property which characterizes positively closed <span><math><mi>E</mi></math></span>-valued models.</div><div>A large part of our discussion is given in the context of infinite quantifier geometric logic, dealing with the fragment <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>κ</mi><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow></msubsup></math></span> where <em>κ</em> is weakly compact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"177 6","pages":"Article 103726"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007226000096","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/1/28 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LOGIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We study positively closed and strongly positively closed topos-valued models of coherent theories. Positively closed is a global notion (it is defined in terms of all possible outgoing homomorphisms), while strongly positively closed is a local notion (it only concerns the definable sets inside the model). For Set-valued models of coherent theories they coincide.
We prove that if for a complete Boolean algebra, then positively closed but not strongly positively closed -valued models of coherent theories exist, yet, there is an alternative local property which characterizes positively closed -valued models.
A large part of our discussion is given in the context of infinite quantifier geometric logic, dealing with the fragment where κ is weakly compact.
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