Quasitoposes, quasiadhesive categories and artin glueing

Abstract

Adhesive categories are a class of categories in which pushouts along monos are well-behaved with respect to pullbacks. Recently it has been shown that any topos is adhesive. Many examples of interest to computer scientists are not adhesive, a fact which motivated the introduction of quasiadhesive categories. We show that several of these examples arise via a glueing construction which yields quasitoposes. We show that, surprisingly, not all such quasitoposes are quasiadhesive and characterise precisely those which are by giving a succinct necessary and sufficient condition on the lattice of subobjects. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.