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A connected site is a site satisfying sufficient conditions to make its topos of sheaves into a connected topos.

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Proposition

Let CC be a locally connected site; we say it is a connected locally connected site if it is also has a terminal object.

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Proposition

If CC is connected locally connected site, then the sheaf topos Sh(C)Sh(C) is a locally connected topos and connected topos.

Proof

Being a locally connected site, we already know that we have a locally connected topos (Π 0ΔΔΓ):Sh(C)Set(\Pi_0 \dashv \Delta \Delta \Gamma) : Sh(C) \to Set. By the discussion there we need to check that Π 0\Pi_0 preserves the terminal object.

The terminal object in the site represents the terminal presheaf on CC, which is the presheaf constant on the point. By the discussion at locally connected site we have that every constant presheaf is a sheaf over CC, hence the terminal object of Sh(C)Sh(C) is also represented by the terminal object in the site, and we just write “**” for all these terminal objects.

By the discussion there, the left adjoint Π 0\Pi_0 in the sheaf topos over a locally connected site is given by the colimit functor lim :[C op,Set]Set\lim_\to : [C^{op}, Set]\to Set. The colimit over a representable functor is always the point (this is the (co)-Yoneda lemma in slight disguise), hence indeed Π 0*=*\Pi_0 * = *.

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